EDO - tabako uri - selling tobacco

LINK
http://darumamuseum.blogspot.jp/2007/05/tobacco-pouch.html

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tabako uri, tabako-uri　煙草売り　selling tobacco in Edo



He carried a wooden box on his back with many drawers, for different kinds of tobacco.
There were various Chinese characters to be read

TA BA KO 多葉粉 / 田葉粉 / 金絲烟 and our modern 煙草.

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. chinko kiri　賃粉切り　cutting leaf tobacco for money .

. Doing Business in Edo　- 江戸の商売 .

rauya, raoya　羅宇屋　repairman of tobacco pipes



They looked different in Edo (back) and Osaka - Kamigata (front).

He exchanged the sooty middle part (rau) made of sedge grass (suge 菅) and was thus also called "sugekae"すげ替え, or rau no sugekae ラウのすげ替え.
He walked around carrying exchange parts and tools to clean the pipes, calling
rauyaaa, kisseruuuu 『ラオヤー、キセルッ』.

The repairman in Edo had one large box carried on both shoulders.
In Kamigata he carried two smaller boxes on a pole.


source :　www.gakken.co.jp/kagakusouken

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