Store request - Tanauke

Japanese: 店請 - たなうけ

In the Edo period, shop tenants, estimated to be about 70% of the residents of Edo and Osaka, provided the necessary guarantees when renting a house. Shop tenants were often relatives or people from the same hometown, and in some cases they were not only homeowners but also shop tenants. Shop tenants not only rented houses, but also took in the families of shop tenants when they were unable to pay the rent or fell into extreme poverty. It can be said that the lives of the lower classes in big cities were based on the work of the family, and on top of that, their livelihood was guaranteed by shop tenants and housekeepers (landlords).

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

江戸時代，江戸や大坂で住人の約70％と推定される店借が，借家する場合に必要な保証をすること。店請人は親類縁者とか同郷の出身者などが多く，家持だけでなく店借がなる場合もあった。店請は借家をする場合だけでなく，店借が店賃を支払えなくなったり，生活が極度に困窮したとき，その家族を引き取ることもあった。大都市での下層の住民生活は家族の労働が基礎となり，そのうえに店請人とか家守(大家)などによって保証されていたといってよい。

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