Dinner fee - Small fish fee

...In the Edo period, a post station was established and it was known as the first post station on the Tokaido. In the March 1843 (Tenpo 14) Shinagawa-shuku "Account Book of the Inn" it lists the following as miscellaneous taxes for the inn: Shibainehoshibasen (rice drying tax), Hayashi-sen (for forestry), Yabu-sen (for bushes), Shibama-sen (for grass), Ryoshi-machiuratsuitatechinoei (for the area behind the hunter's town), Ashino-sen (for arid nets), Ami-shuku-sen (for drying nets), Nori-gai (seaweed tax), Osaisakana-dai (for vegetables and snacks), Ship-work tax, Funadaki-goun-joyo (for boats), Tabi-ryo-sen (for traveling hunting boats), etc. The tax on dishes and snacks was a payment of fresh fish, which had been delivered to Edo Castle, but since 1792 (Kansei 4) has been changed to a payment of cash; the tax on ship fuel was a tax on kaya, fuel used to burn the bottoms of ships traveling around the country, new ships, and old ships, which were sold by people staying at the inn; and the tax on traveling hunting ships was collected from fishing boats from Awa and Kazusa, which fished in nets off the coast of Shinagawa Bay.

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

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…江戸時代には宿駅が設けられ，東海道の第1宿として知られた。1843年(天保14)3月の品川宿《宿方明細書上帳》には，芝稲干場銭（しばいねほしばせん），林銭，藪銭，芝間銭（しばません），猟師町裏築立地野永（りようしまちうらついたてちのえい），芦野銭，網干場銭，海苔運上，御菜肴代（おさいさかなだい），船役銭，船焚御運上（ふなだきごうんじよう），旅猟船（たびりようせん）運上などが同宿の小物成(雑税)としてあげられている。御菜肴代は江戸城に納入していた鮮魚納めが，1792年(寛政4)以来，代金納になったもの，船焚運上は同宿のものが売っている，諸国廻船，新造船，古船が保全のために船底を焼く燃料のカヤに課税されるもの，旅猟船運上は安房･上総の漁船が品川浦沖合で網漁をするので，これらの漁船から徴収するものである。…

※「御菜肴代」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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