Putting the squeeze on the wealthy to make them cough up (or otherwise deliver) their money and put it back into circulation. Economic and social theory (mirroring medical theory) at the time regarded the hording of large quantities of wealth as unhealthy for society as a whole. In a healthy society, wealth should circulate, just as in a healthy body, blood and ki 気 (vital energy) must circulate. Social ills, like bodily ills, are usually the result of a blockage of that which should circulate freely. A major earthquake hits the homes and businesses of the wealthy the hardest in the sense that they are large and costly. So they have to spend much money to rebuild. And because the demand for labor is so high after an earthquake, they have to spend much more than they ordinarily would. This money goes into the pockets of the laborers and circulates throughout society, thus restoring it to economic health. Click on at least one or two of the images below to see their larger versions. The yellow-orange objects being vomited, excreted, etc. are gold ryô coins.

The final image in this group is titled Inochi shirazu gôyoku, which might be translated as "Life-threatening greed." It literally means "Extreme greed to the point of not knowing one's life/fate."

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