A woman who works on the sea's edge, engaged in the catching, gutting, and selling of fish.
“Is it drier, my sleeve, than the brine-wet sleeve of the
fishwife? Sodden it is, from the waves upon which it floats.”
Murasaki Shikibu,
The Tale of Genji (11th Century).
[Translated by Edward G.
Seidensticker.]
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