gourd-melon

She had halted at a grocer's shop, and his eyes were soon agog at sight of her investments -- mushrooms, not of much weight, but in bulk forming almost a mound; the dried sliced gourd called _kambyoku_, of which she seemed very fond; marrow, _to [u] gan_ (gourd-melon), [1] the new and expensive potato (_imo_), for money was no object in her purchases.

Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2