Clothes

Japanese: clothier
Clothes

…By this time, wool had come to play an important role in domestic trade, and wool middlemen began to play an important role instead of staple merchants. Among woolen textile producers (clothiers), wealthy ones were able to function as wool merchants themselves without the need for middlemen, but many poorer clothiers had to depend on wool middlemen for raw material supplies. Moreover, for poor clothiers, whether they could procure the raw material, wool, with their own financial means was an important issue in terms of whether they could produce independently on their own account, and when this was not possible, they were incorporated into the so-called wholesaler system. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "clothier" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…このころには,羊毛は国内取引において重要な位置を占め,ステープル商人に代わって羊毛仲買人が活躍するようになる。毛織物生産者=織元clothierのうち,富裕な者は仲買人の仲介を要さず,みずから羊毛商人として機能しえたのであるが,多数の貧しい織元は羊毛仲買人からの原料供給に依存しなければならなかった。しかもその際,貧しい織元にとって原料である羊毛をみずからの資力で調達しうるか否かは,自己計算で自立した生産を営めるか否かの重要な問題であり,それが不可能な場合にはいわゆる問屋制支配に組み込まれていった。…

※「clothier」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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