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Is it a boat on the shore of the fish river seen by Uoya Sogoro?
Following the New Year Asakusa Kabuki "Uoya So Goro" in January, the topic of the fish shore. How did you sell fish on the shores of the fish in Nihonbashi?
A board that arranges fish is called a board boat. A board boat is a door board that sells fish side by side, encloses the back of the mana board with a shallow edge, puts a little cold water, and puts raw fish. It is called a boat because of its shape. A flat plate with a width of 1 shaku (about 30 cm) and a length of 5 to 6 shaku was offered to the public road from under the eaves of the store to make it a fish sales floor. The public road was narrowed by a board boat that came out from both sides. In the Taisho era and Showa eras, permission from Tokyo City was required to use this, and this was called "Itafune Gon". This right was registered with the union, and without the board, business could not be done in the market.
Purchase and sale of Itafune rights
The ownership of this boat could only be obtained by buying, selling, renting, or by inheritance. The boardship rights could be used only for union members to buy, sell, lease, and secure, but if the transferor still owns a land and house, the transferee will pay 50% of the rent as "Niwasen" every month. Was to be paid to the transferor. It was a different concept from the ownership of the land and house.
Itafune rights originated in the Edo period and were a complex tradition. It is described in the "Fish Market History Bulletin" as follows.
"In the apportion, fish merchants set up their own doorboards, started selling fish, then set up barns on riverbank streets, made eaves boards and sinks in front of the barn, and on Hon Funamachi Street, hempcho (cloth woven with hemp) ) And ships, and merchant residence was settled in the market in later years. In the first year of the Taisho era, it was a total length of 7,236 shaku (2,170 m), but it gradually increased due to the development of the market and the approval of the police, reaching 9,100 shaku when the fish market was relocated (Nihonbashi → Tsukiji). Was. Lease prices ranged from 1st to 7th, and the monthly fee was distributed at a minimum of 2.40 to 14.86 yen. The trading price was distributed between a minimum of 250 yen and 1,300 yen per shaku, and the total price was 7,097,683 yen. (From the History of the Central Wholesale Market in Tokyo)