Rental kettle - Kashigama

Japanese: 貸釜 - かしがま

This refers to the system and practice of lending and borrowing kettles for boiling salt or cooking rice, as well as the kettles that were borrowed and borrowed. The former was adopted in the early modern Kaga domain as part of the salt monopoly system, under which, for the production of Noto salt, salt kettles were cast by a foundryman in Nakai (present-day Anamizu Town, Ishikawa Prefecture) at domain expense and then loaned to saltmen. These salt kettles were called oshiire kettles, and the domain owned and loaned them to the saltmen for the first six years, after which the foundryman owned and loaned them to the saltmen for seven years, after which they were sold to the saltmen at the end of the 13-year term. This principle continued until the end of the domain's rule, but there was also a system in which foundries cast salt kettles at their own expense and loaned them directly to saltmen on the condition that they would be repaired in case of damage, which continued until the Meiji period.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

塩煮用の釜や炊飯用の釜を貸借する制度や慣行および貸借される釜をいう。前者は近世加賀藩において塩の専売制の一環としてとられたもので，能登塩の製造にあたり藩費をもって中居(現，石川県穴水町)の鋳物師に塩釜を鋳造させ，これを塩士に貸与する制度であった。この塩釜は御仕入釜と呼ばれ，藩が最初の6ヵ年，その後鋳物師が7ヵ年釜を所有して塩士に貸し付け，13年満期で塩士に払い下げられるものであった。この原則は藩政末まで行われたが，このほか鋳物師が自らの費用で塩釜を鋳造し，破損の場合の修繕を前提に塩士に直接貸し付ける方法もあり，明治時代まで続いた。

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