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Iwashiya, a medicinal wholesaler in 3-chome, Nihonbashi Honcho
As a member of the Tokyo City Guide Club (TCGC), I am also a volunteer guide. There are many subcommittees in the TCGC, including the "Famous Map Group" with the aim of "seeing and training the Edo period through Edo Famous Maps and contributing to guide activities." The other day, I saw an illustration of a "medicine shop in Nihonbashi Honmachi" with Mr. Sudo, a group friend, and repeated various discussions. I have not solved all the questions that arise there, but I would like to introduce some of the discussions.
The beginning of the discussion is a picture of the attached "Edo Famous Zumakinoichi Honmachi Yakushi Store". What did the house (storehouse) of "1st to 4th" tied with the red line refer to? Of course, you may think it's stupid to ask questions about self-evident, but the following questions came out:
[Question 1 Isn't the positional relationship between the left and right pictures the opposite?]
The cityscape of Honmachi continues from Tokiwa Bridge to 1-chome and 2-chome, and crosses Chuo-dori from 3-chome to 4-chome. The owner of "Iwashiya" on the left of the famous place event is Saemon Matsumoto City and others from the gu ticket map (1873), indicating that the address is Honmachi 3-chome. Since Honcho-dori St. is a two-sided town, Honmachi 3 has a north and south sides, but since the gu ticket map shows that "Iwashiya" is located in the Honmachi 3 Minami section, this picture looks from the north side of Honmachi You can see that it was a picture you did. The two pictures of "Honmachi Pharmaceutical Shop" were initially imagined as Honmachi 3-chome (left) and 4-chome (right), respectively, but the first section beyond Nihonbashi Street is Honmachi 3, so Honmachi 3 is on the picture It is unlikely that Honmachi 3 will come to the left. If you look closely, you can see that the eaves of the house on the left is drawn at the upper left end of the picture on the right, so you can see that two pieces are drawing Honmachi 3-chome.
On both sides of Honmachi 3-chome (colored)
The questions that arise from my misunderstanding have been easily resolved.
[Question 2 Who is the owner of each house?]
The picture of Yukidan Hasegawa of the Edo Famous Zoukai is thought to have been produced around 1830, so the owner of the real estate imagined that it would be almost the same as the one in the 1873 gu ticket map. The rightmost house was owned by Gorobei Saishu (formerly Hikoemon Kitamura-cho senior residence) in 1873, and a house owned by Eizo Ikenaga and Maebashi tigers (?) Then it becomes the residence of the sardines and clan. The storehouse with the names of No. 1 to No. 4 (?) Is it rented from Eizo Ikenaga or Maebashi tiger, or it may be "Iwashiya"'s own warehouse? I don't know.
For example, "If you receive an order for a medicine, Mr. Banzu may have had an exchange saying, "Please bring a medicine called" ... "from Sanbanzo and give it to the customer at the storefront." .
You can see the upper part of the word "return" on the sign of the store on the other side across the street of sardines. According to "Edo Shopping Sogo Guide", Osakaya Shozaemon in the middle of the north side of Honmachi 3-chome is the only person who sells "Genso Katamatan". On the north side of 3-chome, there are two medicinal wholesalers, "A Konishi Chozaemon" and "Osakaya Shozaemon". Since the Kyoho era, tiled roofs and coloring houses have been encouraged as fire prevention measures by the Shogunate, and there are warehouses on the right. There is no doubt that the medicinal store in the illustrations is the family of "Sohonke, Sardineya Ichizaemon", a medicinal wholesaler and medicinal merchant in the middle of the south side of Honmachi 3-chome. Sanchome has a length of about 120m (60 between Kyoma) in the east and west streets, but 22 drug wholesalers on both sides of that street (7 of which also serve as pharmaceutical and blending) It is said that as many as seven medicinal merchants were gathered.
Note: The sardines and groups are currently composing the "Heisei sardines and Society", so I decided to teach me various things. There is currently Sakura Global Holdings (formerly Iwashiya Sakura) in Honmachi 3, so I contacted Mr. Tamura over the phone and heard about the famous place event. Replaced land during the construction of Takeda Pharmaceutical's headquarters building, and current address: It has been relocated to 3-1-9 Nihonbashi Honmachi, Chuo-ku. Unfortunately, I couldn't get more information than this blog.
By the way, regardless of the drug wholesaler or medical device, the term "Iwashiya" is because the founder was a drug dealer who was Amimoto in Sakai, Izumi Kuni (Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture). While sardine fishing was thriving in Sakai, the port was imported from overseas and also handled pharmaceuticals. Such a medicinal merchant descended to Shinkaichi, Edo, and took the name derived from his hometown.
If you can hear interesting information from sardines and "Tamura-sama" in the future, we will report it on the blog as a follow-up report.
Reference:
1. Chuo-ku Historical Chart (Nihonbashi edition) Chuo-ku Board of Education, Tokyo
2. Edo Famous Places