Ogawa paper

...At that time, it was called Okawara paper and was produced mainly in Yasudo Village, Chichibu County. According to the "Shinpen Musashi Fudokigo" (1828), published 160 years later, it was called Ogawa paper and was produced in villages such as Taira and Koshigoe, with wholesalers in Ogawa Village being the center of production. At first, it was a Tenryo (a land owned by the Tokugawa shogunate), so sales within Edo were free as long as taxes were paid to the magistrate, but in 1813, sales to anyone other than Edo Jigumi wholesalers were prohibited, and the price of paper was unilaterally determined by the wholesalers. ...

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…当時は大河原紙と称して，秩父郡の安戸村が中心であった。それから160年後の《新編武蔵風土記稿》(1828)によれば，小川紙と称して，平村，腰越村などですき，小川村に問屋がいて，中心地となっている。初めは天領であるため，代官に税を払えば，江戸府内の販売は自由であったが，1813年に江戸十組問屋以外に販売することが禁じられ，紙の価格を問屋に一方的に取り決められた。…

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