EDO - tokkaebei metal and sweets

LINK
http://edoflourishing.blogspot.jp/2013/12/ame-uri-vendor-of-candy.html

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tokkaebee とっかえべえ / tokkaebei とっかえべい
collector of old metal, gives a sweet (amedama) in return

This is the Edo version of torikaeyo 取り替えよう - I am exchanging things!



- - - - - Legend knows this:
About the year 1715 a citizen from Asakusa Tahara 浅草田原町 called Kinokuniya Zen-emon 紀伊国屋善右衛門 tried to get money for a new bronze bell of the temple 紀州道成寺 Dojo-Ji in Kishu (now Wakayama). So he began to collect old bronze pieces and awarded the donor with a small gift of a sweet.



This was different from the dealers in old metal, 古鉄商, who collected most metal tools.
Things of no worth, like old nails or the metal ends of a long pipe would go to the "Tokkaebee".

. Recycling and Reuse in Edo - リサイクル と　再生　/ 再使用 .

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