firewood usage fee at an inn
Archaic term for a fee charged by inns for the use of firewood to cook food brought by the guest. Historical context; not used in modern Japanese.
cheap lodging house
Abbreviation of 木賃宿 (kichin-yado), a cheap inn where guests paid only for firewood and cooked their own food. Archaic; the full term 木賃宿 is more recognizable.
See also: 木賃宿
At Edo-period inns, one could pay a firewood fee and cook one's own meals.
「木賃」 is an abbreviation of 木賃宿, referring to a cheap inn.
Standard kanji spelling for this historical term.
Compound of 木 (ki, 'wood, firewood') and 賃 (chin, 'fee, charge'). The abbreviation sense derives from 木賃宿 (kichin-yado).