Buy accommodation - Kaiyado

Japanese: 買宿 - かいやど

During the Edo period, this was a type of commercial organization that assisted wholesale merchants in purchasing goods in production areas. They were seen in those dealing in textile products and related raw materials such as silk, raw silk, cotton, ginned cotton, hemp, and safflower. A typical example was when Echigoya (Mitsui), Daimaru (Shimomura), and Shirokiya (Omura) appointed local merchants and set up silk purchasing inns in Fujioka, Kozuke. The inns were designated by contract. The role of the inns was to accommodate the staff sent by wholesale merchants on purchasing trips, to temporarily store the goods received, to supervise the staff who were sent out, and to purchase and send back the goods on their behalf, and their income was in the form of fees or commission for these.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

江戸時代，大都市問屋商人のために，生産地にあって商品の仕入買集めの補助をなした商業組織の一種。絹，生糸，木綿，繰綿，麻，紅花などの繊維製品およびその関連原料を扱ったものにみられる。越後屋(三井)，大丸(下村)，白木屋(大村)などが上州藤岡に在地商人を指定しおのおの絹買宿を置いたのはその典型である。買宿の指定は請負契約によった。問屋商人が仕入れに派遣出張させる手代の宿泊，仕入荷物の一時保管，出張した手代の監督と，商品の代買買送りとが買宿の役割であり，これに対する世話料あるいは代買口銭が収入であった。

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