Osaka Museum of Housing and Living 9th floor
Exhibition Hall 1: Osaka in the Early Modern Period
Time travel back to Edo Period
4. Gofuku-ya Fabric Store
There were many gofuku-ya fabric stores in Osaka during the Edo era, selling tanmono fabric (or gofuku) for kimono.
Across the doma earthen floor in the middle, the store is divided into the kami-mise upper store on the right, and the shimo-mise lower store on the left.
In the upper store, silk tanmono fabrics were sold while in the lower store, furute second-hand clothes were sold.
During the Edo era when people took good care of their clothes, even second-hand clothes and fabric scraps were precious tradable goods.
In order to prevent color-fading of valuable goods caused by direct sunlight, gofuku-ya fabric stores at that time hung naga-noren long curtains from the eaves.
The stool extruding from the storefront, which is used as a display shelf for goods, can be folded up and locked after store hours. When morning comes, it is slammed opened and is, thus, called battari-shōgi, which is a Japanese onomatopoeia.
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