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''Kuni [[tonya|don'ya]]'', or "province wholesalers," were merchant establishments operate

...ers who managed the trade in a given good. When a post-town had multiple ''tonya'', there was typically one ''toiyaba'' operated by each.

*[[Edo]] merchants form the ''[[tonya|tokumidoiya]]'' organization of ten associations of wholesalers.

Jihei is known to have been a member of the ''Jihon [[tonya|toiya]]'', or "Picture Book and Print Publishers Guild" in 1807, and to hav

Eirakuya was granted membership in the Edo booksellers' guild (''[[tonya]]'') in the 1830s. The second Eirakuya Tôshirô, also known as Katano Yosh

...the ''[[machi bugyo|machi bugyô]]'' (town magistrate) of Edo ordered the ''tonya'' abolished. However, the underlying question of which business model to fo ...ng his own rival cartels. In addition to the establishment of a fertilizer tonya in 1799 and other efforts, in the early years of the 1800s he arranged, thr

...modern stock market. Another type of trade group, called ''toiya'' (or ''[[tonya]]'' in [[Edo]]), served as wholesale merchants, focusing primarily on shipp ...significant degree of legitimacy and power. While the ''kabunakama'' and ''tonya'' received monopoly licenses and government support in other forms in excha

...'[[koku]]'' to 200,000. Similarly, the Osaka-based warehousing guilds (''[[tonya|ton'ya]]'') handling rice and other goods from these regions grew in number

...''[[rakuza]]'', which developed out of the older guild types known as ''[[tonya]]'' and ''[[za]]''.

...'' system of domain-commissioned warehouses, as well as roughly twelve ''[[tonya|ton'ya]]'' (private shipping agents) each of which specialized in the stora

...ma, and Tsushima formed relations with shippers and warehousers called ''[[tonya]]'', who organized the transport, storage, and handling of goods shipped fr ...orts into more prominent regional ports. As storage & shipping agents (''[[tonya|ton'ya]]'') in these rural areas began to compete against those located in