得とく意い場ば

noun

customer; client

Archaic term for a customer or client, similar to modern 得意先 (とくいさき). Not used in contemporary Japanese.

See also: 得意先

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいの商しょう家かでは、得とく意い場ばを大たい切せつにしたという。

  It is said that merchant houses in the Edo period valued their customers (得意場).