Merchants from Kyoto

…The goods exchanged at these markets were mostly either official taxes or items to be delivered to them, and the majority of them were used by local lords such as jito, shigeshi, and komon to procure tribute to the central manorial lord or to exchange their own possessions for money. Therefore, many of the merchants who came and went were merchants who traded between distant regions, bringing local specialties from the capital and other regions from the center and buying local specialties from the region. It was from the end of the Kamakura period to the Nanboku-cho period that the general public from the surrounding farming villages began to participate in the markets and exchange. …

*Some of the terminology used to refer to "merchants coming from Kyoto" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…これらの市で交換する物資は，年貢公事物か，その納入のためのものが多く，地頭，下司，公文などの在地領主による，中央の荘園領主への貢納品調達や自己の収納物の換貨のための利用が，大きな部分を占めた。したがって来往する商人も，〈京下りの商人〉と言われるように，中央から都や各地の特産物を持参し，地方の特産物を買い取っていく隔地間取引商人が多い。　周辺農村の一般民衆が市に参加して，交換を行うのがきわだってくるのは，鎌倉末期から南北朝期にかけてである。…

※「京下りの商人」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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