Ryusei Kishida's parents' home, famous for his "Reiko statue" depicting his daughter's profile, was located on Ginza Chuo-dori in Ginza 2-chome. Currently, in the southern half of the Ginza Trading Building, where Melsa is located underground, it will be a place with a flower shop on the ground. It's just about Exit 9 of Ginza 1-chome Station on the Yurakucho Line.
His father, Ginka Kishida, was very active as a journalist and businessman in the Meiji era! I would like to introduce you.
Late tokugawa shogunate, who suffered from eye disease, visits Dr. Hebbon, a doctor in Yokohama. Dr. Hebbon is the person who created the name of the passport we are using now, and Ginka, together with Dr. Hebbon, will compile the first full-fledged Japanese-English dictionary in Japan, "Wa-English Forest Shusei"! It is also said that the name of the dictionary is also the name of Ginka!
Active 2 I went to Taiwan as the first military reporter in Japan in the Tokyo Nichinichi Shimbun and the current Mainichi Shimbun, and his military record has become a great reputation!
Active 3 With a prescription for eye drops given by Dr. Hebbon for helping to compile, he opened the pharmacy "Rakuzendo" in 1878 and sold the eye drop "Seisui". It's a big hit! Due to the structure of the house, it was a very revolutionary eye drop for Japan, where soot accumulated indoors and many people suffered from eye disease. Until then, it was the first time to use water-type medicine with ointment.
4 Ginka publishes an advertisement for medicine in a newspaper for the first time in Japan. If you put a public notice in the newspaper, you're the first person in Japan to focus on increasing sales! !
Active 5 Ginka is working on the welfare business we call it now. In 1880, "Rakuzenkaikun Blind-in Temple" was held in 1880 to educate the blind! ! It has been taken over by the University of Tsukuba Special Visual Support School, the only national school for the blind in Japan at present. The construction site is near the current Tsukiji Outer Market, and there is a monument in the park. By the way, the design of the building was by Josiah Conder, who came to Japan as a foreigner.
Ryusei Kishida was born in 1891 as the fourth son of Ginka who was active in this way.
In the essay "Shinko Hosoku Ginza-dori", which used Ginza in 1929, he wrote, "I grew up there until my youth while listening to the sound of the bells of railway carriages."
At that time, Ginza Chuo-dori was the first private railway and carriage railway in Japan, which opened from Shimbashi to Nihonbashi in 1882.
Ginka Kishida closed his life at the age of 72 in 1905.
