Anthropologist Tsuneichi MIYAMOTO reported a case of a person in Takihata, Kawachinagano City, Osaka Prefecture, who learned to read and write after reaching adolescence in order to file a suite and recover the common land which was expropriated as a public land during the Meiji Period.
また民俗学者の宮本常一は、明治期に官有地として没収された入会地を取り戻す訴訟を行う為、成人後に読み書きを学んだ大阪府河内長野市滝畑の人物の事例を報告している。