The former peddlers provided services such as repairing locks, fixing pairs of glasses, mending cracked pans, giving massage, mending clog supports, polishing mirrors, mending cracked pottery, re-tightening hoops on barrels, catching rats, fixing abacuses, repairing wooden frames of kotatsu, mending a braid of haori (a Japanese half-coat), repairing andon (a lamp with a paper shade) and chochin (Japanese paper lantern), and writing letters on nameboards.
前者は錠前直し、メガネ直し、割れ鍋直し、あんま、下駄の歯の修繕、鏡磨き、割れた陶器の修繕、たがの緩んだ樽の修繕、ねずみ取り、そろばんの修理、こたつやぐらの修繕、羽織の組紐の修繕、行灯と提灯の修繕、看板の文字書きなど。