@A transliteration of "Tori-tsukusi hatsune Sugoroku"


Sai-tori “ñAHiki-tori
ŽlAKane-tori
˜ZANezumi-tori

¡Transliteration

Hey Koukichi,
What is your plastering?
We aren't making swallow's nest£

but are plastering a wall.
Don't retort back with such cheeky words.£¢

Soon **

£¢›¨Symbols which indicate the connection of paragraphs
–¨means unreadable character

¡From Big Edo Prints¡
about the meaning of sai-tori

There are two different meanings in "sai-tori". The first is the one who takes commission through the buying and selling, broker. The other is construction worker who makes plaster and hand it to the plastering worker standing on the scaffold. This sugoroku draws the plastering work very vividly.




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