Depicting coal miners entering a mine with pickaxes (tsuruhashi) in hand and exiting the mine carrying yoked baskets (sena) of coal, this color woodblock print (nishikie) was one of 118 prints in the series Dai Nippon Bussan Zue (Products of Greater Japan), issued in August 1877 to coincide with the opening of Japan's first National Industrial Exposition (Naikoku Kangyō Hakurankai) held in ...