Nighttime work - Yonabe

Japanese: 夜なべ - よなべ

Work done at night. The word was derived from the fact that people worked while cooking midnight snacks with a hotpot. Nighttime work was diverse, including milling flour, spinning thread, weaving ramie, weaving straw bales, making sandals, and straw work such as rope making, and in fishing villages, mending nets. Nighttime work was often done during the long nights from the autumn equinox to the spring equinox, but when it was done jointly, young people's or girls' lodges were used for the work, and the location changed every night.

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Japanese:

夜間に行う作業。夜，鍋で夜食をつくりつつ仕事をしたところから生れた言葉。夜なべ仕事には粉ひき，糸ひき，苧績 (おう) み，俵編み，草履作り，縄ないなどのわら仕事や，漁村では網の繕いなど多種多様であった。夜なべの期間は，秋彼岸から春彼岸までの夜長のときが多いが，共同で行う場合は若者宿や娘宿があてられたり，また毎晩場所を変えたりした。

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