(解説文要約)
右手の仕繰方がクサビを作っています。
このクサビをうまく作れるようになると、一応初心者を卒業できたと言われていたそうです。
描かれている木枠はミョウト枠と呼ばれるもので、坑道を広げた場合に組まれていたものです。
This painting shows a couple of coal mine carpenters called "Shikurikata", building a wood frame in the drive way.
The man on the right is making a wedge. Once they became skilled enough to make good wedges,
they were considered experienced Shikurikata.
The wood frame illustrated in this painting was called Myoto-waku, or a coupled frame.
It was installed in extended drive ways.