noun
stopping place for horse-drawn carriages and rickshaws (Edo period); highway resting place
Historical term for a designated stopping or waiting area for horse-drawn vehicles and rickshaws during the Edo period, often found along highways or in busy districts.
江戸時代、街道沿いには立場と呼ばれる休憩所が設けられていた。
During the Edo period, resting places called 立場 were set up along the highways.
この辺りは昔、駕籠や馬車の立場として
noun
wholesale rag dealer
A dealer who buys and sells used rags or cloth in bulk. This sense is less common and may be encountered in historical or specialized contexts.
古い文献には、立場が古着や布を集めて売っていた記録が残っている。
Old documents record that 立場 collected and sold used clothes and cloth.
This area is said to have once been bustling as a stopping place for palanquins and horse-drawn carriages.
Read as たちば, this is the common modern word meaning 'standpoint' or 'position'. Do not confuse with the historical たてば.
Compound of 立て (tate, 'standing') + 場 (ba, 'place'), literally 'standing place'. The historical derivation is straightforward; the wholesale rag dealer sense may have developed from a place where rags were gathered or traded.