Candy shop - Dagashiya

Japanese: 駄菓子屋 - だがしや
Candy shop - Dagashiya
A store that sells cheap sweets. Dagashi are crude sweets made with cheap ingredients. According to Zoku Asukagawa, typical sweets in Edo in the late 18th century were itaokoshi, daruma sugar, kuriyaki, cinnamon sugar, and okorobashi. The contents of each are unclear, but most of them seem to have been candy or okoshi made with brown sugar. In every town, bantaro sold these as a side job in the guardhouse, along with other miscellaneous goods such as straw sandals, tissues, moxa, and candles.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
駄菓子をあきなう店。駄菓子は安価な材料を使った粗製の菓子のことで,《続飛鳥川(ぞくあすかがわ)》によると18世紀後半の江戸では,板おこし,だるま糖,栗焼,ニッケイ糖,大ころばしなどが代表的なものだった。いずれも内容ははっきりしないが,黒砂糖を使ったおこしやあめの類が多かったようである。それらをどこの町でも番太郎が副業として,わらじ,鼻紙,もぐさ,ろうそくなどの荒物(あらもの)とともに番小屋であきなっていた。

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