薬やく種しゅ商しょう

noun

apothecary; druggist; chemist

Historical term for a merchant who dealt in crude drugs and herbal medicines, roughly equivalent to an apothecary or druggist in pre-modern Japan.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だい、薬やく種しゅ商しょうは漢かん方ぽう薬やくの原げん料りょうを扱あつかっていた。

  In the Edo period, apothecaries handled raw materials for Chinese-style medicine.