Shelf/Store - Tana

Japanese: 棚∥店 - たな

It is an abbreviation of "mise-dana" (a stand on which goods are displayed), and by extension, refers to a store where goods are displayed. It is already written in the Tale of Utsubo that "fish and salt would be brought in on an empty cart, and the customers would read them and set them on the shelves to sell," and in the ancient fan-shaped sutra copy at Shitennoji Temple, a shelf was set up in front of the store and persimmons were placed on it for sale. As mentioned above, it can be seen as a shelf for selling goods during the Heian period, but in the Kamakura period, it came to be used as the business rights of a za. In Shijo-cho, Kyoto, there is a shelf for a kirikagaza, and the rights to the za are bought and sold along with the building itself.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

〈みせだな〉の略で商品を陳列してならべた台，さらに転じて陳列した店（みせ）をいう。すでに《宇津保物語》に，〈空車（むなぐるま）に魚･塩積みてもてきたり，預どもよみとりて，たなに据ゑて売る〉とあり，また四天王寺の扇面古写経では，店頭に棚をおき，柿を置いて売っている。以上のように平安期に商品を売る棚として見られるが，鎌倉期には，これが座の営業権として使われるようになった。京都の四条町には，切革座の棚があり，その家屋とともに座権利が売買されている。

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