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Around 1730 · Dōjima, Osaka · Warehouses, Dōjima market and the canals

A day when the bales stay put

Ichiro, an Osaka merchant’s clerk

Match the rice sample and its papers so the warehouse can trace the lot.

You hold paper; the rice it represents is still in a warehouse.

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Explore the diagram: Trading a rice bill while the rice stays put
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Trading a rice bill while the rice stays put

Does acquiring a bill mean the rice bales have already arrived?

Straw-wrapped rice bales enter a canalside warehouse, where other bales remain stacked.
01Store the rice
Rice balesWarehouse residence

The rice is held in the warehouse.

A place to sell tax rice

Domains brought tax rice to cities such as Osaka and sold it from warehouses. Raising funds depended on transporting and storing the same goods.

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These illustrations explain processes and institutions rather than reconstructing actual people, buildings or layouts. Cutaways and insets show hidden structures or separate locations.

Dojima rice exchange ↗

Store the rice

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Straw-wrapped rice bales enter a canalside warehouse, where other bales remain stacked.

Straw-wrapped rice bales enter a canalside warehouse, where other bales remain stacked.

Ichiro, twenty-four, the warehouse clerk, brokers and dealings are fictional. Illustrated papers are not copies of actual receipts. Allocation and route numbers are game units, not rice prices or contract quantities.

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Sources
  1. Dōjima rice market site ↗

    大阪市 · Authorisation in 1730, spot and futures dealings, and national prices.

  2. Dōjima rice market ↗

    日本取引所グループ · Warehouses, trading organisation, receipts and the 1869 suspension.

  3. Markets of Osaka ↗

    国立国会図書館 · Changes in the market and its depiction in prints and maps.