Osaka rice transport

Japanese: 大坂廻米 - おおさかかいまい

…In the early modern period, the shipping industry was not yet fully developed, so each feudal domain built its own ships and requisitioned ships within its domain to secure ships to transport rice. Not only in the Pacific coastal areas of Tohoku, where shipping had hardly developed before the modern period, but also in feudal domains along the Seto Inland Sea, they secured ships to transport rice by building and hiring ships, and transported rice to Osaka and Edo. The renewal of eastern and western shipping by Kawamura Zuiken in 1671 (Kanbun 11) and 1672 also established the early modern rice transport system. …

From Yodoya Koan

…In addition, as the head elder of Osaka, in 1608 (Kan'ei 8), he worked hard for the Osaka townspeople to realize the special privilege of Itowarifu (a group of Chinese raw silk importers) that had previously been limited to Sakai, Kyoto, and Nagasaki. Furthermore, as a townspeople brewer, he took on a large-scale sale of rice to Osaka for various feudal domains, and as a result, rice merchants flocked to the storefront of Yodoya in Kitahama to hold a rice market. This is said to be the origin of the later Dojima Rice Market. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "Osaka Mawarimai" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…近世初期には廻船業がまだ十分に発達していないこともあり，各藩は手船を造り，領内船の徴用で廻米船を確保した。近世以前海運の発達がほとんどなかった東北の太平洋沿岸地域はもちろん，瀬戸内海沿岸の諸藩においても造船や雇船によって廻米船を確保し大坂廻米と江戸廻米を行った。　1671年(寛文11)，72年の河村瑞賢による東廻海運，西廻海運の刷新は近世廻米体制の確立でもあった。…

【淀屋个庵】より

…また大坂の総年寄として31年(寛永8)従来，堺，京都，長崎に限定されていた糸割符(中国産生糸の輸入商グループ)の特権を大坂町人のために奔走して実現させた。さらに町人蔵元として諸藩の大坂廻米の販売を大規模に引き受け，そのため北浜の淀屋の店頭には米商人が群集して米市が立つようになったという。のちの堂島米市場の濫觴（らんしよう）とされる。…

※「大坂廻米」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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