chimney sweeper

Japanese: chimney sweeper(英語表記)chimneysweeper
chimney sweeper

...There have been countless inventions and inventions for the former. In the 19th century, chimney sweeps were a business in which children covered their heads with a cloth and went inside chimneys (which had scaffolding) to remove soot. In England, the government banned children under the age of 16 from working in the industry in 1875, and raised the age to 21 in 1895.
[Japanese Chimneys]
In Japan, foreign travelers at the end of the Edo period pointed out that there were no chimneys on the roofs, but with the introduction of Western civilization, chimneys began to appear, and in the early Meiji period, the two most commonly used words were "smoke pipe" and "chimney."

*Some of the terminology that mentions "chimney sweeper" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…前者にはおびただしい発明考案がなされている。また煙突掃除chimney sweep(chimney sweeper)では,子どもが頭から布をかぶり,煙突の内部(足場がつけてある)にはいってすすをとる商売が19世紀には行われ,イギリスでは1875年に16歳以下の子どもの就業を禁止し,95年にはその年齢を21歳に引き上げた。
[日本の煙突]
 日本では,江戸時代末期に外国からきた旅行者が,屋根に煙突の見当たらぬことを指摘しているが,西洋文明の移入とともにその出現を見,明治初期には〈煙出し〉〈煙筒〉の2語が最も多く使われた。…

※「chimney sweeper」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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