Tawaramono - Bag of rice

Japanese: 俵物 - たわらもの

In Nagasaki, it was called "hyomots". Marine products exported from Nagasaki during the Edo period. They were so named because they were exported in straw bales. Initially, there were only two products, "irinako" (dried sea cucumber) and "dried abalone", but later "shark fin" was added. Since the end of the 17th century, Nagasaki's main export product was copper, but from the mid-18th century, copper became scarce and trade with China was replaced by straw bales of various goods (shoshiki). The shogunate appointed contractors in various regions and set up a straw bales exchange in Nagasaki to let Nagasaki townspeople handle the trade, but in 1785 (Tenmei 5), it abolished the straw bales contract office and set up the straw bales of goods motoyakusho (official office for purchasing straw bales), dispatching officials to various provinces to purchase directly.

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Japanese:

長崎では「ひょうもつ」といった。江戸時代，長崎から輸出した海産物。俵に詰めて輸出されたので，この称がある。初めは「いりなまこ」「乾あわび」の2品であったが，のち「ふかのひれ」を加えた。 17世紀末以来，長崎のおもな輸出品は銅であったが，18世紀なかばから銅が不足し対清貿易は俵物諸色 (しょしき) がこれに代った。幕府は各地に請負人を定め，長崎には俵物会所をおき，長崎町人に取扱わせたが，天明5 (1785) 年俵物請方を廃して俵物元役所を設け，役人を諸国に派遣して直接買入れを行なった。

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