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...Even if a business type had been approved as a kabu nakama before the dissolution, if it was deemed not to be a wholesaler, it was not allowed to be re-established. As this policy was implemented in cities such as Edo, Osaka, and Kyoto, those who shipped goods to city wholesalers in commodity-producing areas were made to form kabu nakama as buyers, and those who bought goods from local producers but did not trade with city wholesalers were ranked as middlemen, and measures were taken to reorganize and strengthen the old purchasing system of producer-middleman-buyer-wholesaler. In advanced areas, the purchasing system that had already been established in the 18th century was expanded to areas where commodity production had developed later, and the distribution relationship that was beginning to crumble under the feudal domain system was rebuilt, and the scope of kabu nakama was expanded both in cities and in rural areas. ...

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…なお，解散前に株仲間として認可されていた商種であっても，問屋に相当しないとされたものは，再興が許されなかった。江戸，大坂，京都などの都市でこうした政策が進められるにともない，商品生産地においては都市問屋に出荷する者を買次として仲間を結ばせ，在地で生産者から買い集めても都市問屋と取引しない者は，仲買として格付けし，生産者―仲買―買次―問屋という旧来の仕入機構を再編強化する方策をとった。先進地においては18世紀にすでに成立していた仕入機構を，遅れて商品生産を展開した地域にも拡大し，崩れつつあった幕藩制的な流通関係を再構築しようとしたもので，都市，地方ともに株仲間の枠を拡大したのである。…

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