Hamako

Japanese: 浜子 - はまこ

A worker engaged in salt production at a salt field. At upland salt fields and inlet salt fields, the work involved pumping up seawater, spreading sand to make the salt adhere, and collecting it, which was hard work. At inlet salt fields, about 10 salt workers were employed per hectare, and they were called master carpenters, upper salt workers, workers, cookers, etc. depending on their skill. However, from around 1953, they began to be replaced by run-down salt fields, which did not require the labor of salt workers, and in 1959, with the third salt industry reorganization, all salt workers became run-down salt fields, and they disappeared.

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Japanese:

塩田で製塩作業に従事する労働者。揚浜式塩田，入浜式塩田では，海水を汲み上げたり，塩分を付着させる砂をまいたり，集めたりする作業を行い，重労働であった。入浜式塩田で 1haあたり 10人前後の浜子が雇用され，職能によって棟梁，上浜子，寄子，炊きなどの名称をもったが，1953年頃から浜子の労働力を必要としない流下式塩田に代りはじめ，59年の第3次塩業整理によってすべて流下式塩田となったため，姿を消した。

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