Daily employment - Toshihiyatoi

Japanese: 通日雇 - とおしひやとい

A type of day laborer in the early modern period, transport workers who passed through inns, as opposed to inn-connecting laborers. They were also called toshihiyo (transit workers), and in some cases referred to as joge (postal couriers). They were engaged in carrying luggage, accompanying and guiding guests, and were also involved in daimyo's alternate attendance tours, pilgrimages to Nikko, individual pilgrimages to shrines and temples, and hot spring cures. The general supervising these laborers controlled the transportation of large amounts of luggage. These laborers included roadside kumosuke and farm village peasants. The general supervising them was a kind of boss with the shippers and each post station along the way.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

近世の日雇の一種で，宿継人足に対して，宿を通す交通労働者。通日用（とおしひよう）ともいい，飛脚を意味する上下（じようげ）がこれに当たる場合もある。荷物の運搬，客の付添い･案内などに従事し，大名の参勤交代，日光社参，個人の社寺参詣，湯治にも従事した。大量の荷物の輸送には宰領が通日雇の人足を統制した。人足には道中の雲助とか，農村の百姓とかがなっている。彼らを指図する宰領は，荷主と道中各宿場に対して一種の顔役である。

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