2007/05/05

Medicine (kusuri)

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Medicine bags (kusuribukuro 薬袋)



Medicine sellers from Toyama 富山の薬売り




Toyama in the old Echigo province was famous for the medicine production before the modern area.
A lot of their medicine packs had a face of Daruma on it for good luck too.
Their sellers used to walk from home to home with their large backpacks and exchange the old unused medicine from last year to the new one. Most households kept a box with medicine for daily ailments. Toyama no kusuri uri, the medicine sellers, would keep their customers through many generations.

Lately, the medicine with Daruma has been revived and I have quite a few in my Daruma Museum.

. Tateyama Shinkō 立山信仰 Tateyama belief .


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The history of Toyama's medicine goes back 300 years. The museum stores and displays a number of materials on pharmacy such as historical documents.
Devices and free gifts that were used for patent-medicine business are displayed at the museum. It is located in the Folkcraft Village.
Toyama Medicine Sellers
Medicine of Toyama 富山のくすり

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奈良県 製薬会社 達磨薬 六神丸 ダルマ 達磨の絵

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Bag for Medicine, to be folded

From Takada seiyaku 高田製薬
For a cold medicine.

Width 39 cm, length 55 cm






(I got two bags as a present from a friend.)













source : ameblo.jp/ainagaki


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Some bags from my collection







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Chinese Medicine and Haiku
富山の薬売り

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消化剤入りだるま
I could not find a photo, but found a Daruma Pharmacy in Kobe.


名良だるま堂のコンセプトは「明るく優しく元気」。
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創業は昭和6年(1931年)。神戸市灘区で1番歴史のある漢方薬局です。
source : 名良だるま堂薬局


More PHARMACIES called
Daruma Yakkyoku だるま薬局


ダルマ薬局 Daruma Pharmacy - photos

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. Food as Medicine (yakuzen 薬膳 ) .

. Medicine in the Edo Period .
and hokku by Matsuo Basho

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. Doing Business in Edo - 江戸の商売 .



kusuri-uri 薬売り selling all kinds of medicine
apart from the Toyama vendors.

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2 comments:

Gabi Greve - Darumapedia said...

isha 医者, ishi 医師 doctors in Edo
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Gabi Greve said...

A Legend

ie no kai-i 家の怪異 families with a weird story
A certain family tells of an ancestor who was a priests. He took a consort and worked hard to become very rich. But
even now when the children grow up to become adults they get 肺病 a lung disease and die. Very seldom the skin of their arm looks like 蛇の鱗 the scales of a snake.
Another family tells of ancestors who killed kusuri uri 薬売り a medicine vendor and buried him in the back of the estate. They became rich for a short time and then the family died out.
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https://heianperiodjapan.blogspot.com/2020/01/haibyo-lung-disease-legends.html
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