Sardine seller - Iwashiuri

Japanese: イワシ売 - いわしうり
Sardine seller - Iwashiuri

...The head is cut off with a knife, the belly is cut open with the fingertips, the backbone and intestines are removed, and the fish is washed with vinegar and eaten with wasabi soy sauce. Sardine sellers, who were called "Iwashi-koi" or similar, were commonly seen in Tokyo until around World War II. The protagonist of the Otogi-zoshi story Saru-genji-zoshi is set as a sardine seller from Ise, and according to the Honcho Shokan, many sardine sellers seen in Kyoto in the early Edo period were from Kishiwada (Osaka Prefecture) and Kuwana (Mie Prefecture).

*Some of the terminology that refers to "sardine seller" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…包丁で頭を落として指先で腹をさき,中骨と腸を除いて酢洗いし,これをワサビじょうゆなどで食べる。〈いわしこい〉などと呼び歩いたイワシ売は,第2次世界大戦ころまでは東京でもよく見られたものであった。御伽草子の《猿源氏草紙》の主人公は伊勢のイワシ売に設定されており,《本朝食鑑》によると,江戸時代初期の京都で見られたイワシ売は岸和田(大阪府)や桑名(三重県)のものが多かったという。…

※「イワシ売」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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