In order to supply food to every corner of Edo, the most highly populated city in the world beyond London and Paris that were the most advanced cities in those days, the distribution was developed into a big, complicated and fine system, and people categorized into business called the furiuri were at the lowest end of the system.
当時最先端の都市であったロンドン、パリを超えた世界最大級の人口密度を持った江戸の街の隅々に食料を供給するために、流通システムも巨大で複雑で細かなものに発展していき、そのシステムの末端が、振売と呼ばれる業種の人々だった。