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Japanese: 毒消売 - どくけしうり

A peddler who sells dokkeshi-uri (dokusho-maru). Also called "dokkeshi-uri." Dokusho-maru (dokusho-maru), a medicine for stomach problems (gastrointestinal disorders) and stomach aches, was sold in various places, including Kyoto, Satsuma (Kagoshima), and Higo (Kumamoto), but the term "dokusho-uri" generally refers to the peddler of dokkeshi-uri medicines in Echigo (Niigata). They were familiar to women who wore navy blue kasuri robes and leggings. Initially, it was a job for men, but with the start of the Meiji period, more women began to take up the role, and unmarried women would travel to remote areas for long periods of time, lasting more than six months, to peddle. Echigo's dokkeshi-maru was mainly produced in Maki-machi, Nishikanbara-gun, about 15km southwest of Niigata City.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

毒消丸を売る薬の行商。〈どっけしうり〉ともいう。毒消丸という食傷(胃腸障害)，腹痛の売薬は，京都，薩摩(鹿児島)，肥後(熊本)など各地にあったが，一般に売薬行商の毒消売といえば越後(新潟)のそれを指す。紺絣の筒袖･脚絆姿の女性の売子で親しまれてきた。当初は男性のしごとだったが，明治に入ってから女性の進出が目だつようになり，未婚女性の半年以上にもわたる長期の，しかも遠隔地への出稼行商だった。越後の毒消丸は新潟市の南西約15kmの西蒲原郡巻町を中心に製造された。

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