Wholesaler - Toiya

Japanese: 問屋 - といや

〘Noun〙① = toimaru (questioning round)① ※Koyasan documents - October 5, 1465 (Kansho 6), Nanbu Sho annual tax control diary "Lower use portion (abbreviated) 500 mon wholesaler"② = toyaba (wholesaler's place)※Kanazoshi, Tokaido Meishoki (around 1659-61) 2 "When someone said they wanted to buy a horse, the inn asked the tohiya (wholesale agent ) for help and took the wholesaler's promissory note."③ A merchant who buys up goods and sells them wholesale . Tonya. ※Ukiyozoshi, Nihon Eitaigura (1688) 1 "He held the money exchange and sold them to the tohiya (money changer) ."④ A person whose business is buying or selling goods for others under his own name. A type of middleman. Tonya. ※Commercial Law (1899) Article 313: "A wholesaler is a person who sells or buys goods for others under his/her own name."⑤ One of the Hamakata at the rice market in Dojima, Osaka during the Edo period. Buys and sells regular rice and choai rice. It is referred to as the Choaikata or Tsumikata.⑥ A yuriya in a pleasure quarter. It was said in the Kituji pleasure quarters of Yamato Province (Higashi Kituji-cho and Narukawa-cho in Nara City). ※Ukiyo-zoshi, Goka no Tsuyojo-o (1702), 4: "The ageya here are called toiya in the local language."⑦ An abbreviation of "toiyayaku (wholesaler)." [Etymology] (1) "Tomaru," a lodging for people who handled goods on ships and brokered the sale of their goods, came to refer to a collection point for land transport as well, and "maru" became "ya."
(2) Wholesalers that did a lot of business with distant countries tended to be called by the name of the place they were in, such as Matsumae Wholesaler or Tosa Wholesaler, while wholesalers that specialized in a particular field and did a lot of business with nearby countries tended to be called by the name of the product they produced, such as Oil Wholesaler.
(3) It is said in the Naniwa Monsho that “in Edo, the word ‘toiya’ (wholesaler) is pronounced as ‘ton’ya’,” and in the early modern period, the word was said differently in the east and west.

Ton-ya [wholesaler]

〘Noun〙① A variation of "toiya (wholesaler)." ※Essays, Imperial Capital Afternoon Sleep (1850) 3 "In Edo , toiyas were called tonyas ."② A person who seems to be in charge of a certain matter. A person who specializes in that matter. ※Comedy Books, Ukiyo -furo (1809-13) 4 "You're a lying tonya , so you're no target."

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Japanese:

〘名〙① ＝といまる（問丸）①※高野山文書‐寛正六年（1465）一〇月五日・南部庄年貢支配日記「下用分〈略〉五百文問屋」② ＝といやば（問屋場）※仮名草子・東海道名所記（1659‐61頃）二「馬をからんといへば、宿より宿の問屋(トヒヤ)にあんなひをいふて、問屋の手形をとり」③ 品物を買い集めて、卸(おろし)売りする商家。とんや。※浮世草子・日本永代蔵（1688）一「銭ざしをなはせて両替屋、問(トヒ)屋に売せけるに」④ 自分の名で他人のために物品の販売または買入をすることを業とするもの。取次商の一種。とんや。※商法（明治三二年）（1899）三一三条「問屋とは自己の名を以て他人の為めに物品の販売又は買入を為すを業とする者を謂ふ」⑤ 江戸時代、大坂堂島の米市場での浜方の一つ。正米及び帳合米を売買するもの。帳合方や積方に対していう。⑥ 遊里の揚屋のこと。大和国木辻遊廓（奈良市東木辻町・鳴川町）でいわれた。※浮世草子・五箇の津余情男（1702）四「此所のあげやは、所言葉とて問屋といふ」⑦ 「といややく（問屋役）」の略。[語誌](1)船で商品を扱う人の宿所で、その荷の販売斡旋をしていた「問丸」が、陸上輸送の集積所をもいうようになり、「丸」が「屋」となった。
(2)遠国との取引きが多いものは松前問屋、土佐問屋のように地名を冠して呼ばれ、専業的で近国との取引きが多いものは油問屋など品名を冠して呼ばれる傾向があった。
(3)「問屋(トイヤ) 江戸でとんやといふはなまり也」〔浪花聞書〕とあり、近世期は東西で異なった言い方をしていた。

とん‐や【問屋】

〘名〙① 「といや（問屋）」の変化した語。※随筆・皇都午睡（1850）三「江戸にて問屋(といや)を問屋(トンヤ)と云」② ある事柄を、一手に引き受けてでもいるような人。そのことを専門としている人。※滑稽本・浮世風呂（1809‐13）四「おめへは虚誕(うそつき)の問屋(トンヤ)だから、的(あて)にならねへ」

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