Saitō, Osamu (contributor); Settsu, Tokihiko (contributor) - 2006
draw their
supply of currency from the Osaka market. All these transactions were made
through the channel of Osaka … wholesale merchants (ton’ya), intermediary dealers
(nakagai) and local merchants. A transaction at each stage of this chain was …-centred hierarchical chain of commercial relations was much
less to do with those kin- and community-based enforcement mechanisms. The key …