A vendor who carries small goods for sale in a bundle or a pack.
"Though it would soon be morning, no cocks were crowing. From the main street, very near at hand, came the sleepy voices of peddlers offering wares with which he was quite unfamiliar. The women among them, he had heard, could look like veritable demons as they strode about in the dawn with their wares balanced on their heads."
Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji (10th Century).
Translated by Edward G. Seidensticker.
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