The Western pharmacy entered Japan, with other domains of science, during the Meiji era. A typical drugstore of that period was combining the new furnishings for medicine storage with traditional Japanese merchant fittings.

Photographed here is a pharmacy store reproduced in the Museum of Commercial and Domestic Life of the Uchiko town, in Ehime, Shikoku island.

Museum of Commercial and Domestic Life, Uchiko, Ehime

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