幕末から大正中期における東京駄菓子の展開 : 川越菓子屋横丁と比較して

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In this paper, I will discuss the processes involved in the making of a large center of cheap sweets in the Kanda area of Tokyo. At first, the makers sold their sweets in their factories, but by the middle of the Meiji era, they had succeeded in building a market in the Kanto area. In the middle of the Meiji period, a few wholesalers were born, and the makers had no choice but to work through them. At the end of the Meiji era, some of the wholesalers changed their business so as to deal mainly with goods made by the new and large sweets enterprises, and became separated from the other 'inner city' wholesalers. Though the very poor makers still belonged to them, they also had their own associations and their own sales routes, and the tiny, cheap sweet shops which were scattered across the whole Kanto area were connected directly to them via the sweet 'carriers'. Just after the 1st World War, the sweets market collapsed and the makers transferred from Kanda to other areas.