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domain warehouse; feudal warehouse estate
During the Edo period, warehouses maintained by feudal domains in major commercial cities, especially Osaka, to store and sell rice and other products from their territories.
大阪には多くの蔵屋敷があった。
There were many domain warehouses in Osaka.
各藩は蔵屋敷を通じて年貢米を売りさばいた。
Each domain sold its tax rice through its warehouse estate.
蔵屋敷は藩の経済を支える重要な拠点であり、大阪が「天下の台所」と呼ばれる理由の一つだった。
Domain warehouses were important bases supporting each domain's economy, and were one of the reasons Osaka was called 'the kitchen of the nation.'
CULTURE:
A key institution of Edo-period commercial life. Osaka, as the center of rice trading, had the highest concentration of 蔵屋敷. Each feudal domain (藩) maintained one or more of these in Osaka or Edo to convert their rice tax (年貢) into cash. The 蔵屋敷 system contributed to the development of Japan's early commodity markets.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 大阪の蔵屋敷 (Osaka domain warehouses)
- 藩の蔵屋敷 (a domain's warehouse estate)
- 蔵屋敷跡 (site of a former domain warehouse)