Minecart (トロツコ, Trokko) is a short story by Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.
It is a story about a young boy who experiences the adult world for a short amount of time.
Many junior high school students in Japan study this short story in class.
Construction of a light railway has begun between Odawara and Atami, two towns in east Japan.
Ryōhei runs down a dark hill road thinking “I just don’t want to die”.
Rikiishi looked back on his memory of watching this construction work and wrote it down.