Official
Transporting 1,000 boxes
The names of the well-known Kinman families in Edo include Sankuro Mitani and Shinemon Nakai in Kanafukicho, Takehara in Muromachi, and Murata in Renjakucho Kanda. Shinemon Nakai, including Nakai Bank (which is now Mitsubishi UFJ Bank after repeated discrete collections), worked for the Tokugawa Shogun Kaneko. If necessary, a thousand boxes will be transported from Yotsuya to Edo Castle i.
Transport of 1,000 boxes
The Senryo box is a thick cypress plate with two feet wide, one shaku wide and six inches high, and is a robust box with four corners covered with metal fittings. It is a lacquer-like ink, and the name of Yotsuya is written. This box is locked and hangs before and after the balance bar, and ten or twenty people come together to the castle via kimono Hashikado and Tokiwa Hashikado.
The person who carries it is a poor appearance that can be said to be broken, but it seems that there has been no inconvenience in transporting a thousand boxes. There are no invoices or bills, etc., and they are handed directly to the Kinzo official from Yotsuya for Kaneko.
Now it is cash transportation in charge of security companies such as Secom and Arsock, but there is no rugged thing to escape, and there seems to be no unwilling person to attack. It seems that they were carrying stones and tiles.
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① New version of Edo-fu picture book customs traffic (text, picture Kiichiro Kikuchi = Hiroshige 4th): Published by Seiabo in 1965 Original was issued in December 1905 by the Toyodo Branch