Medicine seller - Kusuriuri

Japanese: 薬売 - くすりうり

Their appearance is depicted in the Muromachi period artisan painting "Seventy-first Artisan Poetry Contest." Medicine peddlers developed in the early modern period, with bases in Etchu Toyama, Yamato Tanba City, the Soja area in Bitchu, and the Nishi-Kambara region in Echigo. According to the "Toyama Medicine Sales History Outline," Toyama in particular began around the Genroku period (1688-1704) when Maeda Masafusa, the lord of Toyama, ordered Matsuiya Gen'emon to dispense medicines using the recipe for anti-soul medicament introduced by the Bizen monk Mozu Jōkan. They then expanded their sales channels nationwide with a unique sales method called "okiyaku" (placed medicine). It is said that poison-relief sales in Echigo began in the Keichō period (1596-1615), and developed as a way for women in fishing villages to earn money.
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Japanese:

室町期の職人絵《七十一番職人歌合》にその姿が描かれる。売薬行商は近世に発達し，越中富山を筆頭に大和丹波市付近，備中(びっちゅう)総社周辺，越後西蒲原(かんばら)地方などを本拠とした。特に富山は，〈富山売薬履歴大綱〉によれば元禄期（1688年―1704年）ごろ富山藩主前田正甫の代に，備前僧万代(もず)常閑の伝えた反魂丹の製法により松井屋源右衛門へ調剤を命じたのが始まりとあるが，配置薬（置薬）という独特の販売法によって全国に販路を広げた。越後の毒消売りは慶長年間（1596年―1615年）に始まるといい，漁村の女の出稼ぎとして発達した。
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