He worked hard in agricultural policy reform in the late Edo period. When he was a child, He lost his parents and rice field. Then he worked at his grandfather’s side. At the age of 20, he bought back the rice field. Recognized for his efforts, he demonstrated his power in agricultural policy reforms in various regions. He was perfectionist only for hard worker. However, after being repulsed by the farmers for a while, he gained forgiveness and boldness.

During the Great Famine of Tempo, his experience led to the anecdote that he drastically released brewed rice and saved the villages in an emergency. I feel like he would be in this era.

From the Taisho to the Showa era, it became popular to make a statue of Kinjiro Ninomiya and donated it to elementary schools all over Japan. The statue was a child walking on a tree while reading a book. It seems that stone statue have been donated recently, but it has changed to a sitting statue to prevent children from using their smartphones while walking.

Historically, it was not clear whether Kinjiro was reading while walking, and he kept a book in his jacket. It is clear that he was an unrivaled reader. and his grandfather told him that evening reading was wasteful of kerosene, so he raised rape flowers himself and made kerosene.

Will the statue of Kinjiro in the Reiwa era into a statue of reading under the light at night? Or will the smartphone be useless at night, will it be a stone statue reading at home in the day?

Schools across the country have begun to reopen. But what kind of drastic reforms will he do? There is no doubt that children should be given priority over financial gains and losses.

(2020年5月20日@nortan)

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