Dried food seller - kanbutsuri

Japanese: 乾物売 - かんぶつうり
Dried food seller - kanbutsuri

…Dried food stores seem to have been established based on the type of product they sold. In Edo, they only sold products in stores, but in Kamigata, in addition to stores, there were also merchants who carried goods on their backs called dried food sellers. They sold shiitake mushrooms, wood ear mushrooms, dried gourd, soybeans, adzuki beans, hijiki, ferns, chopped arame, kelp, herring roe, dried fish, dried cod, herring, and broad beans in boxes marked "dried goods."…

*Some of the terminology used in reference to "dry goods sales" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…乾物屋も最初は商品別に成立したようである。江戸では店売りだけであったが,上方では店売りのほかに乾物売と呼ぶ担い売りの商人も生まれた。シイタケ,キクラゲ,かんぴょう,ダイズ,アズキ,ヒジキ,ゼンマイ,刻みアラメ,コンブ,かずのこ,田作り,干ダラ,ニシン,ソラマメなどを,乾物と記した箱につめて売り歩いた。…

※「乾物売」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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