Osaka Museum of Housing and Living 9th floor
Exhibition Hall 1: Osaka in the Early Modern Period
Time travel back to Edo Period
8. kusuri-ya Pharmacy・Storefront
Higo-ya is the largest merchant in Osaka-machi san(3)-chōme.
The noren storefront curtain hung at the storefront boasts the efficacy of the medicine called Uruyusu, which was sold as an elixir.
The roofing of the storefront eaves uses hegi-ita thin splints of sawara cypress, which is called kokera-roofing.
A glorious roof sign with its own small roof stands on top of the storefront eaves in the middle.
In front of the hyakumi-dansu is the chōba office space where shujin store master and bantō head clerk carry out business transactions.
Yagen druggist’s mortar and hiki-usu hand mill, which were used for preparing medicine, are sitting on the side.
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