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Mitsui Group (三井グループ, Mitsui Gurūpu) is one of the largest corporate conglomerates (keiretsu) in Japan and one of the largest publicly traded companies in the world.
Founded by Mitsui Takatoshi (1622–1694), who was the fourth son of a shopkeeper in Matsusaka, in what is now today's Mie prefecture. From his shop, called Echigoya (越後屋), Mitsui Takatoshi's father originally sold miso and ran a pawn shop business. Later, the family would open a second shop in Edo (now called Tokyo).
© More in the WIKIPEDIA !
shichiya 質屋 pawn shops were also often lending money, put mostly accepted kimono and other clothing items. In Edo during the 18th century there were more than 2.700 pawn shops and in Osaka during the 19th century, there were about 2.400 such shops.
Even in small mountain villages there were these important shops, which used to be open till late in the night.
二村に質屋一軒冬こだち
futa-mura ni shichiya ikken fuyu kodachi
for two villages
one pawn shop -
a grove in winter
飛騨山の質屋戸ざしぬ夜半の冬
hidayama no shichiya tozashinu yowa no fuyu
in the Hida mountains
the pawnshop is closed -
midnight in winter
. Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村 in Hida (Gifu) .
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shichiya 質屋 pawn shop
There were many pawn shops in Edo, more than 2700. From an early time on they formed a guild and tried to keep a proper business, not getting into trouble with the Bugyo town authorities.
It was one of the eight important businesses in Edo:
happinshoo 八品商 eight recycle businesses
質屋、古着屋、古着買い、古道具屋，小道具屋，唐物商、古鉄屋，古鉄買い.
The government kept an eye on them, because sometimes the merchandise was stolen.
They all used some kind of common shop sign (kanban), symbolizing two people coming in and a lot of money is made.
. Recycling and Reuse in Edo - リサイクル と 再生 / 再使用 .
町人に成って侍質屋を出
machibito ni natte samurai shichiya o de
the samurai
left the pawn shop and
became a normal townsperson
Samurai often had to pawn their swords and thus became equal to the normal merchants in the town.
first bonito of the season -
to pawn one's wife for this is
a worthwhile exchange
. katsuo 鰹 bonito .
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- Legends about the shichiya
Kanagawa
Once a poor man asked a fox to turn him into the owner of a sake shop. Then he went to a pawn shop to get some money for the sake. But the pawn shop owner found out when the client licked some oil, saying it was sake. "That must be a fox!" But it was too late, the deal was done and he was quite ashamed of his stupidity.
So the poor man/fox did not have to pay any money back,
Saitama
Once the priest of a temple was in need of money and brought its temple bell 釣り鐘 to the pawn shop. At the town where it was re-sold there was a fire and nobody new why. A fortune-teller found the reason: The temple bell wanted to go back to its temple and hat caused fire to bring attention to itself.
Shizuoka
Once the priest of a temple has lost a lot of money in a dubious deal on a trip and had to bring a Jizo statue from the roadside to the pawn shop to get some money. This Jizo appeared in the dream of a shipping merchant and asked him to buy the statue. When he did so the speed of his trade ships became much faster !
- source : yokai database -
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http://darumapilgrim.blogspot.jp/2011/12/echigoya-and-mitsui.html
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- quote
Mitsui Group (三井グループ, Mitsui Gurūpu) is one of the largest corporate conglomerates (keiretsu) in Japan and one of the largest publicly traded companies in the world.
Founded by Mitsui Takatoshi (1622–1694), who was the fourth son of a shopkeeper in Matsusaka, in what is now today's Mie prefecture. From his shop, called Echigoya (越後屋), Mitsui Takatoshi's father originally sold miso and ran a pawn shop business. Later, the family would open a second shop in Edo (now called Tokyo).
© More in the WIKIPEDIA !
shichiya 質屋 pawn shops were also often lending money, put mostly accepted kimono and other clothing items. In Edo during the 18th century there were more than 2.700 pawn shops and in Osaka during the 19th century, there were about 2.400 such shops.
Even in small mountain villages there were these important shops, which used to be open till late in the night.
二村に質屋一軒冬こだち
futa-mura ni shichiya ikken fuyu kodachi
for two villages
one pawn shop -
a grove in winter
飛騨山の質屋戸ざしぬ夜半の冬
hidayama no shichiya tozashinu yowa no fuyu
in the Hida mountains
the pawnshop is closed -
midnight in winter
. Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村 in Hida (Gifu) .
.......................................................................
shichiya 質屋 pawn shop
There were many pawn shops in Edo, more than 2700. From an early time on they formed a guild and tried to keep a proper business, not getting into trouble with the Bugyo town authorities.
It was one of the eight important businesses in Edo:
happinshoo 八品商 eight recycle businesses
質屋、古着屋、古着買い、古道具屋，小道具屋，唐物商、古鉄屋，古鉄買い.
The government kept an eye on them, because sometimes the merchandise was stolen.
They all used some kind of common shop sign (kanban), symbolizing two people coming in and a lot of money is made.
. Recycling and Reuse in Edo - リサイクル と 再生 / 再使用 .
町人に成って侍質屋を出
machibito ni natte samurai shichiya o de
the samurai
left the pawn shop and
became a normal townsperson
Samurai often had to pawn their swords and thus became equal to the normal merchants in the town.
first bonito of the season -
to pawn one's wife for this is
a worthwhile exchange
. katsuo 鰹 bonito .
.......................................................................
- Legends about the shichiya
Kanagawa
Once a poor man asked a fox to turn him into the owner of a sake shop. Then he went to a pawn shop to get some money for the sake. But the pawn shop owner found out when the client licked some oil, saying it was sake. "That must be a fox!" But it was too late, the deal was done and he was quite ashamed of his stupidity.
So the poor man/fox did not have to pay any money back,
Saitama
Once the priest of a temple was in need of money and brought its temple bell 釣り鐘 to the pawn shop. At the town where it was re-sold there was a fire and nobody new why. A fortune-teller found the reason: The temple bell wanted to go back to its temple and hat caused fire to bring attention to itself.
Shizuoka
Once the priest of a temple has lost a lot of money in a dubious deal on a trip and had to bring a Jizo statue from the roadside to the pawn shop to get some money. This Jizo appeared in the dream of a shipping merchant and asked him to buy the statue. When he did so the speed of his trade ships became much faster !
- source : yokai database -
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