29 Apr 2015

EDO - soroban reparimen

LINK
http://darumasan.blogspot.jp/2005/03/soroban-abacus.html

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. Doing Business in Edo - 江戸の商売 .



soroban naoshi 算盤直し / そろばん直し repairing abacus calculators

In the Edo period the soroban was widely used, even by the common people. Special teachers for children and later even for grown-ups in a kind of night-school made good business.

Repairmen walked along the streets and repaired the broken abacus そろばんなおし when the beads would not move any more or had come off. Sometimes the frame was broken and needed replacement.
The repairmen also carried a variety of new soroban in their backpack and sold them if needed.


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