> ..the conflict in a #ModernizingState between the claims of #IndustrialDevelopment and those of #agriculture. For more than a decade the #MeijiGovernment had assigned priority to the former, and to the country’s rulers and intelligentsia, intent on the systematic creation of a modern #IndustrialBase, it was self-evident that when the two came into conflict, industrial needs were too urgent to be frustrated by local outbreaks of distress among the #peasantry.
#KennethStrong #OxAgainstTheStorm

> Like many of their #samurai forbears, whose attitudes in practice often belied the honoured status theoretically accorded to the farmer in #feudalSociety, they could not help regarding the peasantry as a remote, barely human species whose welfare certainly did not concern them. The instinctive assumption was, therefore, that any restriction of the mine’s activities in the interests of mere #peasants was unthinkable.
#KennethStrong in #OxAgainstTheStorm biography of #TanakaShozo #ShozoTanaka

Night, a cold hard rain
Bull pulls a loaded cart
No wheel tracks remain

Struck hard by the rain
Bull pulls funeral wagon
Nothing left after

This might be the(a?) source for #KennethStrong's book title _Ox Against The Storm: A biography of Tanana Shozo - Japan's Conservationist Pioneer

But isn't an ox a neutered bull?
En Mexicano: ¿Si, buey?

> 大雨にうたれたゝかれ重荷挽く　うしのあゆみのあとかたもなし
http://www8.plala.or.jp/kawakiyo/kiyo43_01.htm
#ShozoTanaka #正造 #TanakaShozo
#田中正造 #うしのあゆみ #OxAgainstTheStorm #BullThruStorm #BullInRain