Fish wholesaler preparation system - Uodon Yashikomi Seido

Japanese: 魚問屋仕込制度 - うおどんやしこみせいど

A system in which fish wholesalers advance some or most of the funds necessary for fishery production to producers, and in return buy some or all of the catch at a low price. It is also called the fish wholesaler purchasing system. It was most widespread from the mid-Edo period to the Meiji period, when fishery production developed and fish wholesalers increased in number, but under this system, fishery producers lost the freedom to sell their own products and were subject to strong control that controlled the life and death of fishery production, and as a result, they were exploited to the extent that they could hardly keep the surplus from their operations.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

漁業生産に必要な資金の一部または大部分を魚問屋が生産者に前貸し，そのかわり漁獲物の一部または全部を安く買い取る制度。魚問屋仕入制度ともいう。漁業生産が発達して魚問屋が多くなった江戸時代中期から明治期において最も広くみられたが，この制度の下では漁業生産者は自己の生産物販売の自由を失い，また漁業生産の死命を制せられるような強い支配をうけ，それによって経営の剰余部分を手もとにほとんど残しえないほどの収奪をうけた。

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