street vendor; hawker; hawking goods
Historical term for a peddler who carried wares in baskets suspended from a shoulder pole, or the act of selling goods this way. The person and the activity are closely related.
In the Edo period, street vendors walked around town selling fish and vegetables.
This picture depicts a hawker carrying a balancing pole.
Standard modern spelling for this historical term.
Variant spelling without okurigana り.
Abbreviated kanji form; less common.
Compound of 振り (swinging, from the motion of the pole) and 売り (selling). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the term vividly describes the vendor's carrying method.