Hanging book - Kakebacho

…The range of customers who bought medicines from pots had a kind of goodwill value, and was called a kakeba (a storefront). 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. After the Meiji period, with the introduction of Western medicines, manufacturing methods and business models were modernized, and pharmaceutical companies such as Kokando and Shitendo were established. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "hanging register" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…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。明治以降，西洋薬方の導入により製法，経営形態も近代化し，広貫堂，師天堂などの製薬会社が成立した。…

※「懸場帳」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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