お店たな

noun

merchant's home; shopkeeper's residence

Historical term used especially by apprentices or employees to refer to the merchant household where they lived and worked. Not used for modern shops.

See also: 店 (たな)

• 丁稚でっちはお店たなで寝ね起おきして商しょう売ばいを覚おぼえた。

  The apprentice lived and worked at the merchant's home to learn the trade.

noun

your rental home; your rented house

Polite term used historically to refer to someone else's rented home, often by a landlord or neighbor. Obsolete in modern Japanese.

See also: 店 (たな)

• 家や主ぬしが借しゃく家や人にんに「お店たなの調ちょう子しはいかがですか」と尋たずねるような場ば面めんで使つかわれた。

  It was used in situations where a landlord would ask a tenant, 'How is your rental home?'