Katakake Silver Mine

…Ecchu in the early modern period was a grain-producing region that supported the Kaga domain, which had a land area of ​​one million koku. The four government officials and six people paid the rice tax, which was collected in the Gokura (public land) and Kurajuku (stipends), and part of the rice was transported by Kitamae-bune ships from Fushiki and Higashiiwase to Osaka for sale. The Nanakaneyama area of ​​Ecchu Shinkawa County (the gold mines of Matsukura, Kawarana, Toraya, and Shimoda, the silver mines of Yoshino and Kamegaya, and the lead mine of Nagato) and the Katakake silver mine of Fushiki County were cash cows for both the Kaga and Toyama domains in the early days, but they rapidly declined. Toyama medicine sales expanded their business area nationwide through a system of Japanese and Chinese peddlers who sold medicines mainly containing Hangontan. …

*Some of the terminology used in reference to Katakake Ginzan Silver Mine is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…近世の越中は百万石加賀藩を支える穀倉地帯で，四公六民で御蔵(公領)･蔵宿(給人知)に収納された年貢米の一部は，伏木･東岩瀬より北前船で大坂に運ばれて売却された。越中新川郡七かね山(松倉･河原波･虎谷･下田（げた）の金山，吉野･亀谷（かめがや）の銀山，長棟（ながと）の鉛山)，婦負郡片掛銀山は初期には加賀･富山両藩のドル箱であったが急速に衰滅した。富山売薬は反魂丹（はんごんたん）を主薬とする和漢の行商人による配置制度で商圏を全国にのばした。…

※「片掛銀山」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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