Edo Tokyo Tatemonoen 5

This building is a shoyu merchant. The storefront is shown in this picture. This is what a shitamachi store front looked like in the early to mid 1900's.



Inside, there is a layout of the shop, Shoyu is their main product. However, the store also sells canned goods such as fruit and tuna or mackerel.

A curiosity are the bottles lined to the left of the store front. HMMMMM, they look familiar. It looks like something we enjoy drinking...................., If you look closely the bottles that line the wall are sake bottles.

The white pots to the left side store miso.




There is also a display of shoyu memorabilia including signs of shoyu manufacturers. Different types of bottles and casks that are used to store shoyu throughout history. These ranged for mason jars to plastic bottles.