Someone who boils sea water to obtain the salt.
"'There on the shore, the salt burners' fires await me.
Will their smoke be as the smoke over Toribe Moor?
Is this the parting at dawn we are always hearing of?
No doubt there are those who know.'
'I have always hated the word "farewell,"' said Saisho,
whose grief seemed quite unfeigned.
'And our farewells today are unlike any others.'"
Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji (11th Century).
Translated by Edward G. Seidensticker.
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