merchant's home
Historical term for a dwelling that also served as a merchant's place of business. Not used in modern Japanese for a regular shop.
See also: お店
In the Edo period, merchants lived in their merchant homes while running their businesses.
rented home
Archaic term for a rented residence. This meaning is obsolete in modern Japanese.
See also: お店
Abbreviation of 見世棚 (みせだな). An archaic or literary term for a shop, originally referring to the display shelves. In modern Japanese, 店 (みせ) is the standard word.
See also: 店棚
In the past, many craftsmen lived in rented homes in tenement houses.
Reading 店 as たな is an old-fashioned way of saying 'shop'.
merchant's home; shopkeeper's residence · your rental home; your rented house
large store; big shop
storefront; front of a store
house rent
Standard kanji spelling for this historical and abbreviated sense of 'shop'.
Alternate historical spelling for the 'store/shop' sense.
Originally referred to shelves (棚) used for displaying goods. The 'shop' sense is an abbreviation of 見世棚 (みせだな). The reading たな is now archaic.