Japanese firemen’s coats
Mar 19, 2020
2 minutes
BY KRIS MANTY
Wikimedia
Commons/public domain
During the Edo period in Japan (1603-1868), folklore heroes and mythological beasts worked alongside firefighters in battling blazes. Not in reality, of course, but they did symbolically have firemen’s backs.
Fires were frequent during this period because of crowded living conditions and wooden buildings, and the firefighters’ objective was to prevent a burning house from spreading its flames
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