| It is said that Josai vendors were around until 1955, selling Chinese herbal drugs by carrying them in a pair of medicine chests on a pole and they wore the same hanten (a short coat originally for craftsmen worn over a kimono) as monouri in the Edo period. |
---昭和30年頃まで存在したといわれ、江戸時代の物売りそのままの装束で半纏（はんてん）を身にまとい、天秤棒で薬箱を両端に掛け担いで漢方薬を売っていた。 |