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...They sold menko, beigoma, glass marbles and hopscotch balls, as well as fireworks in the summer and kites and feathers in the winter. The "atemono" were small rolls of paper like fortune-tellers that you could pay money to peel off, and if you got lucky you would receive something worth several times the original amount. In addition to cheap sweets, there were also foods such as jellyfish with shark skin and twigs of cinnamon tied together with thin strips of red paper.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "atemono" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…めんこ,べいごま,ガラスのおはじきや石蹴り玉,ほかに夏は花火,冬はたこ(凧)や羽根を売っていた。〈あてもの〉というのは,小さな辻占のような紙片を巻きこんだものがいっぱい貼りつけてあり,金を払ってそれをむき,うまく当りが出ると元手のなん倍かの価のものがもらえるというものだった。食べ物では駄菓子類のほかにも,サメの皮の入った煮こごりだの,細く切った赤い紙でたばねたニッケイ(ニッキ)の小枝などがあった。…

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