Japan's Oddest Profession

Maybe one of the oddest professions in Japan is that of the bokka (歩荷). Porters who carry supplies to remote mountain guesthouses inaccessible to vehicles. A bokka uses customized wooden ladder frames to carry 100-165kg of supplies on day long marches (walk up, run down).

A collage shows Japanese mountain porters carrying enormous stacks of supplies in customized wooden ladder frames through remote landscapes and steep forest paths. The joke is the astonishing physical difficulty and unusualness of the job, making it a funny reaction to extreme workloads or exhausting tasks.

• @eternalclassic / 47180 2024-03-01