rikisha,
- a variation of rickshaw.
Example Sentences
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I then hired a rikisha and arrived at the middle school, but school was already over and nobody was there.
From Botchan (Master Darling) by Morri, Yasotaro
I hurried ashore, with no feeling of regret, I might say, and took a rikisha to the outer sea wall to see whatever fighting was going on.
From The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 by Various
According to Red Shirt, one has to make an all-day ride in a wagonette to Miyazaki, after he had left the vessel, and from Miyazaki another all-day ride in a rikisha to Nobeoka.
From Botchan (Master Darling) by Morri, Yasotaro
When I had passed to the entrance in the rikisha, this walk made so outlandishly a loud noise that I had felt coy.
From Botchan (Master Darling) by Morri, Yasotaro
When I went to see the Daibutsu at Kamakura, haying wrapped up myself from head to toe with a blanket, a rikisha man addressed me as "Gov'ner."
From Botchan (Master Darling) by Morri, Yasotaro
