先月、福島県棚倉高校時代の同級生女子に、小江戸川越を案内していただいたときの続き(山崎美術館)です。美術館に入る前、通りに面した亀屋さんの店内を見学しました。かつてはお菓子問屋だけではなく、下駄と傘も販売していたようです。
This is a continuation of last month's tour of Koedo Kawagoe (Yamazaki Museum of Art) given by a female classmate from my days at Tanagura High School in Fukushima Prefecture.
Before entering the museum, we toured the Kameya store facing the street.
It seems that the shop used to be not only a confectionery wholesaler but also sold geta and umbrellas.

お店に「照降(てりふり)問屋」という看板も掲げ、晴れた日は下駄、雨の日は傘ということで、街道を利用する旅人の役に立っていたのですね。
The store also displayed the sign "Terifuri wholesale store" and was useful to travelers using the highway by offering geta on sunny days and umbrellas on rainy days.

そもそも「照降(てりふり)」とは、「てれふれちょう」とも呼ばれ、江戸日本橋にあった通りの名称で、現在の中央区日本橋小舟町一丁目・芳町二丁目・小網町付近をさし、雪駄・下駄などの履物問屋と雨傘問屋とが軒を並べていたことに由来するそうです。世の中、知らないことが多過ぎますね。
Terifuri," also known as "tere-fure-cho," is the name of a street in Nihonbashi, Edo period.
It is said to have originated from the area around 1-chome, 2-chome, and Koamicho in Nihonbashi Kobunacho, Chuo-ku, where footwear wholesalers such as snow geta and geta, as well as umbrella wholesalers, used to stand side by side.
There are so many things in this world that we don't know.