Oil seller - Oil melon

Japanese: 油売 - あぶらうり

A traveling vendor selling oil (mainly for lighting). Until the Middle Ages, oil was made from sesame and perilla seeds, and oil dealers dealing in oil appeared in various places. Among them, the oil dealer in Oyamazaki, Yamashiro, was active almost nationwide, and "Yamazaki" became synonymous with oil sales. In the early modern period, rapeseed oil and cottonseed oil became popular, with Settsu, Kawachi, and Izumi becoming major production areas, and wholesalers such as Kyoto-guchi wholesalers, Edo-guchi wholesalers, oil suppliers, and raw material buyers were established in Osaka. These companies organized into stock associations to control sales routes and the specifications of barrels, and monopolized the market, which continued until the Meiji period. According to Morisada Manko, the customs of oil sellers in Edo, Kyoto, and Osaka were the same: they wore indigo cotton with a tan-dyed chest apron, and carried an oil barrel on their shoulders.
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Japanese:

油（主に灯火用）を売り歩く行商人。油は中世まではゴマやエゴマが原料で，これを扱う油座が各地に現れ，なかでも山城大山崎(おおやまざき)の油座はほとんど全国的に活躍し，〈やまざき〉は油売の代名詞となった。近世に入り，菜種油や綿実油が進出し，特に摂津・河内・和泉が主産地となり，大坂に京口問屋，江戸口問屋，出油屋，原料買集めの両種問屋等が設立された。これらは株仲間を組織して販路と桶(おけ)の規格を統制し市場を独占，明治まで続いた。なお油売の風俗は《守貞(もりさだ)漫稿》によれば江戸，京，大坂とも同じ藍(あい)木綿に渋染の胸前垂をつけて，油桶を天びんでかついで歩いた。
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