(解説文要約)
坑内大工の仕繰方が、坑口付近にある坑木置場から坑内に坑木を運び込んでいる様子を描いた作品です。
専用の台車に坑木を積み込み、行き先を書き、棹取りと呼ばれる配車係に配送を依頼します。
特別に長い坑木の場合は、二つの台車を連結していました。
Here is a painting of a pair of Shikurikata, the workers in charge of coal mine drive construction and maintenance.
They are carrying pit props which were stored outside the pit near the entrance.
After loading the props onto a special car and writing down its destination,
they would ask Saodori, or car transportation men, to deliver them.
In order to load particularly long props, two carts had to be connected together.