Toy seller - Toy seller

Japanese: おもちゃ売 - おもちゃうり
Toy seller - Toy seller

...Some carried their goods on their backs, others on scales, and others on handcarts, and they walked around town selling goods using various musical instruments or calling out the names of the goods. For example, in Beijing, artificial flower sellers (bai zai hua) walked around calling out "bai ya silk flowers," toy sellers (bai yang gao) beat a drum called a toy drum, and cloth sellers (bai fu teki) walked around selling scraps of cloth while rocking a den-den drum and calling out "yu fu hi fu." Candy sellers also played gongs, and oil sellers played wooden sticks (hoshi), which resembled mokugyo. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "toy sales" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…商品を背負うもの,天秤で担うもの,手押車にのせるものがあり,いろいろな楽器を用い,あるいは商品の名を呼びながら町々を売り歩いた。北京などの例をあげると,造花売(売細花)は〈売綾絹花〉と呼んで歩き,おもちゃ売(売要貨)は糖鑼というドラムをたたき,布売(売布的)はでんでん太鼓を揺らしながら〈湯布冷布〉と呼んで端ぎれを売って歩くといったぐあいであった。また,飴屋はどらを鳴らし,油屋は木魚に似た梆子(ほうし)を打った。…

※「おもちゃ売」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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