It is said that “Uogashi-or fish market in the data bank of the sixteenth century, the beginning of the Edo period. Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first Tokugawa shogun and builder of Edo Tokyo as now, fishermen Tsukudajima guests, Osaka and gave it a privilege to fish for the seafood supply left Edo Castle. Purveyed fishermen sold fish to the castle and remains near the Nihonbashi bridge. Uogashi was the source. Uogashi was the source. Then, meet the growing demand for fish with the increase in population, Nihonbashi Uogashi was reformed and developed in a market.
The market was lead from wholesalers licensed by the Shogunate who bought fish from local ports, you sold to brokers in the market and accumulate a large fortune, her own network that distributed. The markets for the vehicles they drive the vehicles collected in the suburbs of Edo were established in Kanda, Senju and Komagome: vegetable markets Edo big three. The markets were able to prosperity driven by traders and brokers as fish markets. During the Edo period the market price was mainly determined by negotiated transactions between sellers and buyers.
The public auction was occurring just save in the vegetable markets. In the eras of Meiji and Taisho, the privilege of wholesalers was deleted. In 1923 some 20 private markets in Tokyo were destroyed almost completely by the great Kanto earthquake. After the earthquake, the city of Tokyo and was then undertook to build a central wholesale market on the basis of the law’s central wholesale market that had been enacted in the same year. Consequently, the three markets of Tsukiji, Kanda and Koto were founded and after growing population led to a succession of new markets.
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