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Updated: May 4, 2025
The firewood-sellers will mostly be men, as will also the large rice-merchants, but nearly all the rest are women. You will find the sellers of spices, fruit, vegetables, and other such matters seated in long rows, on mats placed upon the ground. Each will have a square of space allotted, perhaps six feet square, and there she will sit with her merchandise in a basket or baskets before her.
Everyone is bargaining and chaffing and laughing, both buyers and sellers; but both are very keen, too, on business. The cloth and silk sellers, the large rice-merchants, and a few other traders, cannot carry on business sitting on a mat, nor can they carry their wares to and fro every day in a basket.
It is recorded that when the famine was at its height, rice could not be obtained in some parts of the country for less than forty ryo a koku. Sanguinary riots took place in Yedo, Kyoto, Osaka, and elsewhere. The stores of rice-merchants and the residences of wealthy folks were plundered and, in many cases, destroyed.
Riots resulted, and rice-merchants fearing to make purchases, the market price of the cereal fell again, so that farmers and samurai alike were plunged into their old difficulties. Anyone violating this rule was fined ten momme of silver for each koku of rice purchased or sold by him.
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