One who sells fresh or roasted chestnuts.
"At that time, when the Chrysanthemum Festival was almost at hand, a chestnut peddler made his annual trip to the capital. While speaking of one thing and another at the house of the almanac maker, he asked where the mistress was, but as this was an awkward subject in the household none of the servants ventured to answer.
Frowning, Osan's husband told him: 'She's dead.'
'That's strange,' the peddler went on. 'I've seen someone who looks very much like her, in fact, someone who doesn't differ from her one particle. And with her is the living image of your young man.'"
Ihara Saikaku, Five Women Who Loved Love (1686).
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