sake-dealers

Updated: October 19, 2026

Another document indicates that the monthly expenses of the Man-dokoro were some sixty kwanmon and that they were defrayed by levying taxes upon pawnbrokers and sake-dealers in Kyoto and in Omi province. The Bakufu collected dues on foreign commerce, also, and miscellaneous imposts of an irregular character made no small addition to its income.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era