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The approach to Toshogu Shrine,Nikko

The view of the Ichino torii from the front approach to Toshogu. Ten stone steps called sennin masusugata stand in front of this stone torii. People other than warriors, such as farmers and townspeople, could only go this far when paying respects to the temple. The ditch in the centre and gentle slope difference have been buried and do not exist today. To the right of the approach is Rinoji Temple, and a man walks with a balancing pole to the left.==Date:unknown, Place:Nikko, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number9‐13‐0]

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A cargo carrier

Three thousand ryo a day falls where it must. This senryu poem means that everyday people spend three thousand ryo (monetary unit in the Edo Period), one thousand in the fish market in the morning, one thousand in the theatres during the daytime, and one thousand in the Yoshiwara pleasure quarter in the evening. There was a fish market on the east side of the northern edge of Nihonbashi Bridge during the Edo Period. The man in this photograph is selling fish he just bought at the fish market. Probably taken near Nihonbashi. Since there was no refrigeration then, fish had to be sold within a day and people ate fresher fish than today. This stereograph is dated 1904.==Date:1904, Place:Tokyo, Photo:Underwood, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number97‐77‐0]

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A flower vendor

The kneeling man seems to be holding a pair of flower scissors in his right hand. It is said that flower sellers made a clinking sound with scissors while peddling. Some peddlers sold pots and seedlings as well as flowers.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number85‐46‐0]

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A vendor selling amazake (a sweet beverage)

The peddler carried boxes containing an iron pot with sweet sake and teacups. He carried the boxes hanging in front and back from a carrying pole. The iron pot was kept warm by a heating device underneath.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:R. Stillfried, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number77‐30‐0]

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A fish seller

The fish peddler walked around the city carrying fish in a shallow tub that hung from a carrying pole on his shoulder. The man on the right holding a plate is a customer. He would use the plate to carry the purchased fish home. Called furiuri, these peddlers played an indispensable role in daily life.==Date:1868, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number64‐71‐0]

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A vegetable vendor

A peddler carries vegetables on a balancing pole. When the load was heavy, the peddlers held canes as well. This man is wearing a twisted hachimaki headband, short coat, trousers, white tabi socks and straw sandals. The vegetables include lotus root, burdock, spinach, turnip and mustard leaf. He is writing in a handbook.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number64‐14‐0]

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A drink vendor

A man is peddling sweetened milk in the same manner as an amazake-uri. He keeps the milk warm in an iron kettle and carries it to sell in the streets and lanes of the city.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number55‐24‐4]

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A flower vendor

The man seems to beholding flower scissors in his left hand. It is said that flower sellers made a clinking sound with scissors while peddling. Many items were peddled like flower pots, primrose, chrysanthemum, and amour adonis. The peddling scenes added poetic charm to each season.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number51‐99‐0]

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Bamboo shoot seller

Bamboo shoots are young sprouts that come out of the underground roots. A man puts bamboo shoots harvested in the spring in a basket and sells them. The season word of the bamboo shoot is summer.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number44‐11‐0]

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Merchant carrying goods on a pole

A traveling vendor smoking a pipe. The woman with an infant on her back could be his wife. She is there to see her husband off. But this is unnatural with a child sitting in the front basket of the balancing pole. The balancing pole is carried to the fore, so the basket to the back is probably very light.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Suzuki Shin-ichi, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number41‐49‐0]

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A vegetable vendor

A man sells vegetables to two girls in the garden of a house. The man probably has a bundle of Japanese onions. What is typical of this kind of photo is that there is a variety of vegetables.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Suzuki Shin-ichi, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number41‐26‐0]

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A flower vendor

Flower vendors. Flowers are placed in bamboo vases on all sides of the two platforms, and chrysanthemums are placed in the middle row. The vendor changed the flowers sold every season, and there were a variety among the vendors; those who sold pots, and flower seedlings.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number40‐43‐0]

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A vegetable vendor

A man carries a balancing pole with vegetables in many baskets stacked together, and a woman holding a pail. The vegetable in the lowest basket to the left is probably Japanese radish. It is interesting to see that the Japanese radish is thinner than those we see at present.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number40‐42‐0]

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A flower vendor

Flowers are placed in the left basket on the balancing pole, and branches fill the right basket. A man facing sideways sits between the baskets wearing a hair band, and cuts a branch in the lower part with his scissors.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number29‐5‐0]

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Seller of suika,watermelons

A watermelon vendor carrying a balancing pole. In the front pail are pieces of watermelon, while the pail at the back holds whole watermelon and other fruits. The man has a chonmage (top knot).==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:[R. Stillfried], (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number27‐25‐0]

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A vegetable vendor

A vegetable vendor carrying a pole and a man buying vegetables. There are two rows of baskets one upon the other hanging from the pole. One of the men touches the ground. He is probably selling sweet potatoes. The vendor and his customer both have shaved heads. A scene in the city.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number18‐37‐0]

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Seller of soy sauce

Carried on page 103 of the August 18, 1872 edition of The Far East. The photo is entitled Vendor of Soy . The article explains that the monotonous voice and calls are similar to that in England.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number17‐56‐0]

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A basket vendor

Carried on page 127 of the September 19, 1872 edition of The Far East. Entitled Zaruiya .The explanation says a vendor of baskets and other items made of bamboo, which comes second only to pine in practicality. These sell well on New Years.==Date:First year of Meiji, Place:unknown, Photo:THE FAR EAST, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number17‐51‐0]

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Blowgun

Carried on page 259 of the March 9, 1873 edition of The Far East. A stall in the city offering sweets as prizes where people try their luck shooting darts with a blowpipe. The explanation says the target has the number of the prize on it . The vendor wears a top knot.==Date:First year of Meiji, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number17‐50‐0]

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Seller of tsukemono,pickles

Carried on page 223 of the January 22, 1873 edition of The Far East. Entitled Japanese pickle shop . The explanation has it that although the Japanese diet did not suit foreigners because of its avoidance of meat, the smell of these pickles was particularly unbearable.==Date:Early Meiji, Place:unknown, Photo:THE FAR EAST, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number17‐49‐0]

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A vegetable vendor

A grocer and woman customer. The grocer is barefoot and wears a happi coat. He has his balancing pole on the ground and holds Japanese radishes in both hands. Japanese radishes are also in the two baskets placed on top of each other, and the woman sits with a basket. The background is a picture. To the right is a reed screen.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number16‐2‐0]

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Seller of potted flowers

A flower vendor with a balancing pole sells chrysanthemums, and a man sits looking at the flowers. The flower vendor has his balancing pole on the road and holds scissors in his hands. Both men wear mage (top knots).==Date:Early Meiji, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number15‐21‐0]

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A row of Japanese cedar trees along the Nikko Road

Imaichi was an important crossroad to Nikko, where Onari (Nikko) Kaido, Reiheishi Kaido and Aizu Nishi Kaido met. The cedar trees donated by Matsudaira Masatsuna to commemorate the 33rd anniversary of the death of Tokugawa Ieyasu stand here. In the centre of the boulevard, a man who looks like an incense merchant stands to emphasize the size of the cedar trees.==Date:unknown, Place:Imaichi, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number14‐17‐0]

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A vegetable vendor

A man selling vegetables in front of a house and a woman customer. Various vegetables are sold with many baskets and pails on the daihachi guruma (big wheel cart). The grocery man holds vegetables in his hands, and the woman looks at the vegetables in the pail. The coat of the grocery man is printed with the letters Inoue .==Date:Late Meiji, Place:unknown, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number10‐41‐0]

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A vegetable vendor

A man wearing a hat and coat carries a balancing pole with vegetables, baskets and bowls. In the baskets are various vegetables such as Japanese radish, lotus roots, Welsh onions, burdocks, onions and carrots.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number6‐42‐0]