Bako (Date of photograph unknown)
A farmer or a mago (pack horse driver) and his horse packed with rice bales. The horse wears straw horse shoes to protect the hooves. Pack horse drivers were looked down upon by townspeople and a common expression, used as late as the 1940s, was someone as barbarous and uneducated as a rider. Pack horse drivers were looked down upon by townspeople and a common expression, used as late as the 1940s, was メme as barbarous and uneducated as a rickshaw man or pack horse driverモ (Shafubatei no yakara).