Servant City - Hokouninichi

Japanese: 奉公人市 - ほうこうにんいち

Also called a "job market," this market was a market for brokering employment for seasonal servants. Its origins date back to the appearance of seasonal servants and the popularity of the practice of migrant workers, and are not particularly old. From the early to mid-modern period onwards, many employment agencies that arranged for servants were established in regional cities where the industry was not as established as in large cities. According to documents, the women's market and the job market in Kanazawa, Kaga, which continued until around the Genroku period (1688-1704), are well-known, but they were also held until the early Showa period in Yokote, Akita Prefecture, Nagai, Yamagata Prefecture, Takibe, Toyoura County, Yamaguchi Prefecture, and Tajima, Munakata County, Fukuoka Prefecture.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

人市ともいい季節奉公人の雇用を仲介するための市。この市の起源は，季節奉公人の出現と出稼ぎ慣行の盛行を背景としておりそう古いものではない。近世初中期以降，奉公人の周旋をする口入（くちいれ）屋が大都市のように業として成立しない地方都市に多く生まれた。文献の上では元禄(1688‐1704)ころまで続いた加賀金沢の女市･辻人市が有名であるが，秋田県横手，山形県長井，山口県豊浦郡滝部，福岡県宗像郡田島では昭和初期まで開かれていた。

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