On the 3rd floor of the main building of the Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Main Store, special exhibition of the series TV novel "Asaga came" is being held.
"Asaga came" is a popular NHK morning TV novel, but the costumes and accessories used in the drama are displayed.
By the way, the heroine of this drama is modeled on Asako Hirooka, who worked hard to establish a life insurance company and Japan's first women's college, but her birthplace is the Mitsui family.
The Mitsui family left Ise and Matsuzaka in the early Edo period, opened the Mitsui Echigoya Kimono Store in Edo and Kyoto, and Takatoshi Mitsui, who made a big fortune from a rare business talent, became the founder of the Mitsui family, and Takatoshi's eleven children formed the Mitsui Family.
Since "Mitsui Echigoya Kimono Store" is the current "Mitsukoshi", this special exhibition is also interesting from that point of view.
Asako's birthplace is known as one of the Eleven Mitsui Family, the Aburanokoji Mitsui Family, or the Izumi Family, and is also called the Koishikawa Mitsui Family because it moved to Koishikawa, Tokyo after the Meiji Restoration.
special exhibition will be held from Wednesday, January 20 to February 2 (Tuesday).
The event is hosted by NHK Service Center.
Click here for the website of Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Main Store. ⇒
http://mitsukoshi.mistore.jp/store/nihombashi/index.html
