Daiso (English spelling)

Japanese: 大惣 - だいそう（英語表記）Daiso

This was the nickname of Onoya Sohachi, a representative rental bookstore of the Edo period. It was founded in 1767 (Meiwa 4) and operated in Nagoya for 150 years. It flourished during the Bunka and Bunsei eras, and was frequented by many people, both samurai and commoners. Its wide-ranging collection included entertainment books such as novels and plays, as well as books on religion, I Ching, calendars, astronomy, geography, medicine, and psychoanalysis, and gives insight into the reading trends of the time. Unlike other rental bookstores, which sold their books after passing them around to customers, Onoya accumulated books, and by the time the books were sold off to the Imperial Library, the Tokyo Imperial University Library, the Kyoto Imperial University Library, and other institutions around 1899 (Meiji 32), the number of books had reached over 20,000. [See also] Rental bookstore

Source: Dictionary of Library and Information Science, 4th Edition Dictionary of Library and Information Science, 5th Edition About Information

Japanese:

江戸時代の代表的な貸本屋，大野屋惣八の通称．1767（明和4）年創業し150年間名古屋で営業した．文化文政の頃大いに繁盛し，武士，庶民を問わず数多くの人々が利用した．小説や演劇などの娯楽書，宗教，易，暦，天文，地理，医学，心学など広範な分野の本を所蔵し，当時の読書傾向が知られる．他の貸本屋が蔵書を顧客の間を一巡すれば売り払っていたのと異なり，蓄積してきたので，1899（明治32）年頃蔵書が帝国図書館，東京帝国大学図書館，京都帝国大学図書館その他に売り払われたとき，その数2万数千部にのぼった．[参照項目] 貸本屋

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