旅たび商しょう人にん

noun

peddler; traveling merchant

Refers to a merchant who travels from place to place selling goods, often in historical or traditional contexts. The term is somewhat literary or period-specific; in modern contexts, 行商人 (ぎょうしょうにん) is more common.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいには、旅たび商しょう人にんが村むらから村むらへと商しょう品ひんを売うり歩あるいた。

  In the Edo period, traveling merchants went from village to village selling goods.

• 彼かれの先せん祖ぞは旅たび商しょう人にんとして日本にほん中じゅうを旅たびしたらしい。

  His ancestors apparently traveled all over Japan as peddlers.