"Sedan chair" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... attendant hatamoto and the daimyo[u] then in Edo town. Every yashiki was in a turmoil of excitement and confusion. Even in the greater yashiki there was demand for outsiders to carry the hakomochi or long boxes, for the rokushaku (six footers) or tall fellows to carry the sedan chair, for others to bear the kappakago or rain-coat boxes. Samurai, ashigaru, spearholders, chu[u]gen, zo[u]ri holders—these were attendant in the yashiki. But the minor establishments were mainly dependent on outside aid ...
— Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House) - Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 (of 2) • James S. De Benneville |
