Mingu no Kura - Tsuruoka

There is a signboard of a drugstore in the past here, and it seems that they were selling something called "Ginseng Longan Ba-wan". The ginseng is ginseng, which may have already been domestically produced at that time, but the longan flesh is a dried flesh of the southern fruit Longan, which must have been an imported product. It was introduced at the Bonotsu History Material Center that the Toyama Domain's "Satsuma Gumi" was dealing with such medicines, and in the Yoshimi Family Denseitama Yakuhin Box (1824), which was on display, meat was used. Southern medicines such as nutmeg and 訶 子 were stored. Longan may have been transported nationwide via the "Satsuma-gumi" from the Karafune that also came to Bozu. On the other hand, kelp was found in the Kitamaebune that was transported from Ezochi via Sakata and exported to the Qing dynasty via Satsuma and Ryukyu. So why is kelp boiled in the hotel breakfast even now? I'm surprised, but it would be only if there was such a background. Just as Chinese herbs were valuable, kelp is actually a medicine, and although the era goes back to the end of the Qing dynasty, the diary written by Mrs. McCartney, the wife of the British Consul in Kashgar at that time, developed goiter due to iodine deficiency. There are numerous Uighur depictions. I heard that iodine is now added to the continent during salt production because iodine is low in the soil, but it seems that it was serious when it came to the deepest part like Kashgar in the past. Perhaps the Qing dynasty merchants knew that iodine-rich kelp was essential for their health, and they must have been competing with me to buy kelp without eating it. By the way, in areas such as Fujian and Guangdong where kelp food is widespread to some extent, it is in short that there were many conflicts (mechanical battles) between villages after the middle of the early modern period, and it was not one of them that they were healthy. Is it? (I don't hear that there was a mechanical struggle in Sichuan Province, which was pioneered by Cantonese immigrants before the early modern period). In any case, Longan bears fruit on this beautiful signboard and remains in posterity, and the kelp carried by the Kitamaebune, which is also exhibited here in the folk implement warehouse, is now called "Hidaka kelp" in Hong Kong. It is sold under the name of the production area, but I think it should be taken up more about the exchange of Japanese and Chinese "medicines".