Pulled rickshaw
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A pulled rickshaw is a mode of human-powered transport by which a runner draws a two-wheeled cart that seats one or two people.
Pulled rickshaw, Kolkata, 2004
A lady with a parasol, Jinrikisha, circa 1880
Pousse-pousse in Madagascar
Confucius (transported in a wheeled cart) and children, as imagined by a 17th-century Chinese artist; presumably, the design is similar to the vehicles used at the time. (Illustration from a children's book, Xiao er lun, printed in 1680)
Rickshaw
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A rickshaw, originally denoted a pulled rickshaw, is a two- or three-wheeled cart generally pulled by one person and carrying one passenger. The first known use of the term in English was in 1879. Ove
Pulled rickshaw
…is a mode of human-powered transport by which a runner draws a two-wheeled cart that seats one or two people. In recent times the use of human-powered rickshaws has been discouraged or outlawed in many countries due to concern for the welfare of rickshaw workers. Pulled rickshaws have been replaced mainly by…
Pulled rickshaws in Japan (c. 1897)
Early 20th-century rickshaw in Hanoi.
Edward, Prince of Wales, and his staff disguised as rickshaw men during his visit to Japan in 1922. He bought the clothes himself in Kyoto.
A wheelbarrow rickshaw during the Qing Dynasty.