Lexicographical Neighbors of Rikisha
Literary usage of Rikisha
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Yankee in the Far East by George Hoyt Allen (1915)
"I hadn't more than stepped outside the walled-in yard of my hotel, having declined
the offers of the favored rikisha men within the ..."
2. Bright Celestials: The Chinaman at Home and Abroad by Archibald] [Lamont (1894)
"In the midst of such tilings Tek Chiu chanced upon a rikisha. ... The rikisha-puller,
an old hand at his trade, an opium dross eater, had not strength ..."
3. The Old World and Its Ways by William Jennings Bryan (1907)
"These arc drawn by "rikisha men" of whom there are several hundred ... The 'rikisha
was invented by a Methodist missionary some thirty years ago and at once ..."
4. The Yankees of the East: Sketches of Modern Japan by William Eleroy Curtis (1896)
"Sometimes on a hot day when he has to go into the country your 'rikisha man will
strip down to a breech-clout. On his head he wears a hat of woven bamboo, ..."
5. The Spell of China by Archie Bell (1917)
"But with a hasty brushing of hat and clothing with such equipment as the boy
carried beneath the seat of the rikisha, usually used to scrape the mud from ..."
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