近世後期における三木金物と大坂・江戸市場
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One of the local products which became conspicuous in the late Edo era is Miki hardware centering around cutlery (hardened by beating). Miki town, the center of its production. is located on the left bank of the Mino river, a branch of the Kako river. In this town various blacksmith artisans and hardware brokerage houses established themselves in the Horeki era (1751-64) and the Temmei era (l751∼88), and they produced and dealt in saws, large draw-saws, carving knives, etc. Those artisans were recognized as full-fledged artisans by making themselves lower guilds under the advanced Kyoto-Osaka-Sakai hardware guilds or by changing the sizes of their products ; the Miki hardware came to circulate in Osaka market, the central market of the district, and were sent forward to Edo (Tokyo) market too. In the beginning of the Kansei era (1789∼l800) the hardware brokerage houses formed their guilds, and production and distribution grew to be independent from each other. by which process the scope of activity of the brokerage houses was widened, furthering the development of production of the Miki hardware. In the Bunka era (1804-18), distributive machinery between Miki and Edo was brought into better order by Edo hardware brokerage houses of the ten forwarding agencies. This period saw the ten forwarding agencies try to strengthen their partnership and hold and broaden their privilege in the Edo market. Therefore the Edo hardware brokerage houses put in order the distributive machinery with Miki hardware brokerage house guilds, one of their suppliers with a view to keeping the buying-in and making sure the inflow of the hardware. Under such circumstances, Osaka hardware brokerage house guilds, which were transit traders between Edo and Miki, and the collecting and distributing center of Kyoto-Osaka hardware, were re-organized as part of straightening of the distributive machinery by the Edo hardware brokerage house guilds and as partners that assured the supply of the hardware. Especially, by dint of the re-organization in the second year of the Tempo era (1830-44), the Osaka hardware brokerage house guilds enabled themselves to charge a commission on collecting and forwarding hardware to Edo from Miki and also the Kyoto-Osaka district. Thus it comes to knowledge that Miki hardware secured its position as the indigenous product by connecting itself with the Edo market through the strengthening policy in the system of the Edo hardware brokerage house guilds.
- 1980-06-10