Rental carriage - kashibasha

Japanese: 貸馬車 - かしばしゃ
Rental carriage - kashibasha

...It is the predecessor of today's taxis. The horse-drawn carriage is derived from the carriage rental, and the word fiacre, which refers to the carriage, comes from the mansion Saint-Fiacre on the Rue Saint-Antoine, where Nicolas Sauvage, who started the carriage rental business in Paris around 1640, lived and operated his business. Originally, carriage rental was a business of renting out carriages for half a day, a day, or even for a long period of time, such as a week or a month. However, a carriage that was prepared in a specific place on the street and waited for the customer and went to the designated place in the city was called a fiacre until later, and it became specialized as a horse-drawn carriage. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "rented carriages" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…現在のタクシーの前身である。辻馬車は貸馬車から派生したもので,辻馬車を指すフィアークルという言葉は,パリで1640年ころに貸馬車業を始めたニコラ・ソバージュなる人物が住み,その営業を行った,サンタントアーヌ街のサン・フィアークルの館に由来している。本来,貸馬車は半日とか1日,あるいは1週間とか1ヵ月と長期にわたり馬車を貸し出す商売であったが,街路の特定の場所に二輪馬車を用意して客を待ち,市内の指示されたところまでおもむく貸馬車を,後々までとくにフィアークルと呼び,それが辻馬車として特殊化したのである。…

※「貸馬車」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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