Japanese merchants

Japanese businessman

Japanese Edo period publisher (1750-1797)

Japanese kuge (court aristocrat) family

philosopher

scholar

Japanese tea master

Japanese merchant (1769-1827)

Japanese merchant

samurai

Japanese tea master

Japanese businessman

thumb|Tekiya on the grounds of Shimogamo Shrine in [[Kyoto]] thumb|Tekiya selling talismans and decorations Tekiya ( or ; "peddlers") are itinerant Japanese merchants who, along with the bakuto ("gamblers"), historically were predecessors to the modern yakuza. A loose American equivalent of the tekiya could be seen in carnies.

Japanese artist (1744-1820)

Japanese businessman, river reform specialist and sponsor