Hanging Place - Kakeba

...The method was a credit system in which a peddler would visit his customers, leave several types of medicines with them, let them use them as they wish, collect the cost of the used medicine when he returned, and then exchange or replenish the medicine with new medicine. The range of customers who kept medicines had goodwill value, which meant a kind of business right, and was called a kakeba (a place where medicines were sold). The kakeba book, which was a list of the contents of the medicines, was the basic asset of a medicine peddler, and could even be bought, sold, rented, or pawned. ...

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…その方法は，行商人が得意先を巡回し，数種の薬を預け置き，任意に使用させ，再度の巡回時に使用済み薬代を徴収し，さらに新薬を交換，補充する掛売制度である。置薬の得意先範囲は一種の営業権を意味する暖簾（のれん）価値をもち，懸場（かけば）と呼ばれた。その内容記載名簿である懸場帳は売薬行商の基礎財産で，売買，賃貸，質入の対象にさえなった。…

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