riddle-readers

Updated: May 14, 2025

Next to them were professional caterers for amusement, from dog-trainers, snake-charmers, riddle-readers, acrobats, and trainers of animals, to brothel-keepers and executioners. During the two centuries from the middle of the twelfth, aristocratic dwellings in the capital underwent little change.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era