This medicine issuing device is a container identifying device for identifying tubular medicine containers (1,2,3) provided with identifying marks (4,5,6) on their external circumference, said medicine issuing device comprising: an operation component (7) that takes the medicine containers (1,2,3) out of a cassette (403) a movement path component (8) that moves the medicine containers (1,2,3) taken out by the operation component (7) to an identification position (9) a container rotation component (10) that rotates the medicine containers (1,2,3) that were moved to a specific identification position by the movement path component (8), around an outer peripheral face and an identifying mark reader (11) that reads the identifying marks (4,5,6) of the medicine containers (1,2,3) rotated by the container rotation component (10).
