70122-0003 - Japanese vegetable vendor, 1880s

1880s
Vegetable Vendor

Artist	Unknown
Publisher	Unknown
Medium	Albumen Print
Period	Meiji
Location	Studio
Image No.	70122-0003
Purchase	Digital File
Author	Kjeld Duits

Studio portrait of a Japanese vegetable vendor.

The vendor is wearing a kasa (conical bamboo hat) and a mino (straw raincoat). He carries a pole with baskets filled with vegetables like Japanese radish, lotus roots, Welsh onions, burdocks, onions and carrots.

Peddlers like him were extremely common on the streets of Japan. There were peddlers for virtually everything, from vegetables to medicine to baskets and even furniture.

They went from house to house and walked enormous distances, especially in the countryside. Life was extremely hard for these people.

Published January 1, 2008
Updated February 14, 2022 7:42 AM

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Duits, Kjeld (February 14, 2022). 1880s: Vegetable Vendor, OLD PHOTOS of JAPAN. Retrieved on October 26, 2025 (GMT) from https://www.oldphotosjapan.com/photos/49/vegetable-vendor

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