LINK
http://wkdfestivalsaijiki.blogspot.jp/2007/03/tea-sumi-temae.html
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- Let us take a time trip to Edo !
. Recycling and Reuse in Edo - リサイクル と 再生 .
haikai 灰買い buying ashes
Wood and straw was the most common burnable material in Edo. Considering there were about 1.000.000 people living in the city, a lot of ashes were produced every day.
Ashes were used in many ways during the Edo period. Some examples are the indigo dyers, paper makers, sake and silk producers, furniture makers and others.
Furniture makers used it especially for cleaning a surface.
The buyers for ashes of the kitchen fires and hibatchi heaters walked around the cities and then sold their ware at special "ash markets", for example in Kawagoe and in the suburbs of Edo.
In Kabuki there is a famous saying, to express the "most trivial things"
kamado no shita no hai made 竈の下の灰まで
even the ashes from below the stove
In Kyoto and Osaka the people really sold the ashes from below the stove, sometimes with some husks of rice (nuka) or seeds of cotton (tane), so the buyers would call out
nuka tane hai wa gozai 「ぬか・たね・はいはござい」
In Edo, the ash buyers wanted only the pure ashes. They brought their merchandise to a special ash dealer or merchand 灰問屋 (haidonya), got their money and spent the rest of the day happily.
灰問屋みな白髪の若い者
haidonya mina shiraga no wakai mono
the ash merchands
are all white-haired
young men
. senryu, senryū 川柳 Senryu in Edo .
One of the rich ash merchands was Haiya Juuyuu 灰屋紹由 Haiya Juyu.
Most ash buyers carried a shoulder pole with two rope baskets with long lines at the four corners, (see above),
others teamed up and shared the burden of the basket, called
- mokko モッコ / もっこ / 畚
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http://wkdfestivalsaijiki.blogspot.jp/2007/03/tea-sumi-temae.html
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- Let us take a time trip to Edo !
. Recycling and Reuse in Edo - リサイクル と 再生 .
haikai 灰買い buying ashes
Wood and straw was the most common burnable material in Edo. Considering there were about 1.000.000 people living in the city, a lot of ashes were produced every day.
Ashes were used in many ways during the Edo period. Some examples are the indigo dyers, paper makers, sake and silk producers, furniture makers and others.
Furniture makers used it especially for cleaning a surface.
The buyers for ashes of the kitchen fires and hibatchi heaters walked around the cities and then sold their ware at special "ash markets", for example in Kawagoe and in the suburbs of Edo.
In Kabuki there is a famous saying, to express the "most trivial things"
kamado no shita no hai made 竈の下の灰まで
even the ashes from below the stove
In Kyoto and Osaka the people really sold the ashes from below the stove, sometimes with some husks of rice (nuka) or seeds of cotton (tane), so the buyers would call out
nuka tane hai wa gozai 「ぬか・たね・はいはござい」
In Edo, the ash buyers wanted only the pure ashes. They brought their merchandise to a special ash dealer or merchand 灰問屋 (haidonya), got their money and spent the rest of the day happily.
灰問屋みな白髪の若い者
haidonya mina shiraga no wakai mono
the ash merchands
are all white-haired
young men
. senryu, senryū 川柳 Senryu in Edo .
One of the rich ash merchands was Haiya Juuyuu 灰屋紹由 Haiya Juyu.
Most ash buyers carried a shoulder pole with two rope baskets with long lines at the four corners, (see above),
others teamed up and shared the burden of the basket, called
- mokko モッコ / もっこ / 畚
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