Category
page 1Japanese merchants
Honma Munehisa
Japanese businessman

Tsutaya Jūzaburō
Japanese Edo period publisher (1750-1797)
Saionji family
Japanese kuge (court aristocrat) family
Tominaga Nakamoto
philosopher
Yamagata Bantō
scholar
Yamanoue Sōji
Japanese tea master
Takadaya Kahei
Japanese merchant (1769-1827)
Kinokuniya Bunzaemon
Japanese merchant
Imai Sōkyū
samurai
Takeno Jōō
Japanese tea master
Zeniya Gohei
Japanese businessman
tekiya
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.
Okada Beisanjin
Japanese artist (1744-1820)
Suminokura Ryōi
Japanese businessman, river reform specialist and sponsor