（解説文要約）
明治時代のコマ回しの様子を描いた作品です。
右の男の子の回し方を「ブチ」と呼んでいたそうです。

コマに紐を左周りに巻き、右側から投げて回します。

逆に、紐をコマに右周りで巻き、左側より引くように回すのを「ヒキ」と呼んでいたそうです。
コマの値段は、三銭から五銭。母親におねだりしてもなかなか買ってはもらえなかったようです。

 

 

 

Children spinning tops in the Meiji era from 1868 to 1912 are depicted in this work.
The method of spinning a top used by the boy on the right was reportedly called Buchi.
In this method, the string is wound anti-clockwise around the top and the top is thrown from the right and spun.

On the contrary, when the string was wound clockwise and the top was thrown from the left like pulling the string, the method was reportedly called Hiki.
Tops cost 0.03 to 0.05 yen at that time. Mothers could not seemingly afford to buy them for their children pestering to do so.