鴻池の商品取引と信用関係 (近世と商業経営)

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  • Business Practices of the Konoike in the Late Seventeenth Century
  • 鴻池の商品取引と信用関係
  • コウノイケ ノ ショウヒン トリヒキ ト シンヨウ カンケイ

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Although the Konoike is well known as a usurious money lender to feudal lords (Daimyos), he dealt in various lines of merchandise in his early stages of capital accumulation. He worked on positive lines and his business had many sides to be made clear. The aim of this article is to analyze the materials of the early business of the Konoike and to set them in an adequately composed historical perspective. First, there was the starting point of capital formation in selling the self-distilled sake on credit. Several thousands of Casks were annually transported from the Osaka head shop to the Edo branch by chartered vessels for the most part. The credit account was accumulated for exchange funds, then before long the money-order on feudal lords (Daimyos) was drawn far beyond the funds. Second, considerable imports-clove trees, castor sugar, raw silk, and zinc-were bought and sold to rich merchants and feudal lords anxious to buy luxuries. Third, the commodity handled in the largest way was the rice which was the food of daily necessity and used for distilling sake. The rice paid to the lords as land-tax was sold to the Konoike in the advance of money, and preserved at the Kuramoto warehouse. If the Konoike did not desire the rice he could be paid back in money, and thus the possibility of moneylending to Daimyos expanded the range. Finally, we can make clear it on the book "Sanyo-cho" kept by double entry that the Konoike, taking the rice as security to make a loan to Daimyos, grew up to be the biggest money lender to Daimyos of feudal Japan. In 1669 only fifteen percent of the assets was loaned to Daimyos and sixty three percent to merchants, but in 1672 eighty four percent to Daimyos and seven percent to merchants. The Konoike ceased to handle the commodities to be parasitic on Daimyos, and stood at the height of the concentrative credit structure.

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