Ryusei Kishida's parents' home, famous for the statue of Reiko depicting her daughter's profile, was located on Ginza Chuo-dori, Ginza 2-chome. Currently, in the southern half of the Ginza Trading Building, where Melsa is located underground, it is a place with a flower shop on the ground. Exit 9 of Ginza 1-chome Station on the Yurakucho Line, right?
His father, Ginka Kishida, was a very active journalist and businessman in the Meiji era! I would like to introduce you to you.
late Tokugawa shogunate, who suffers from eye disease, visits Dr. Hebon, a doctor in Yokohama. Dr. Hebon is the person who created the romanization of the name of the passport we are using now, and Ginka compiles Japan's first full-fledged Japanese-English dictionary, "Wa-English Forest Collection," together with Dr. Hebon! It is also said that the name of the dictionary is also the name of Ginka!
Active Part 2 I went to Taiwan as the first military reporter in Japan in the Tokyo Nichi Shimbun and the current Mainichi Shimbun, and the military record has been very popular!
Active 3 With the prescription of eye drops given by Dr. Hebon to help with compiling, he opened a medicine shop "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 accumulates indoors and many people suffer from eye disease. Until then, it was the first time for a water type medicine with ointment.
Active 4 Ginka published a drug advertisement in a newspaper for the first time in Japan. If you put a public notice in a newspaper, it's the first person in Japan that focuses on increasing sales! !
Active 5 Ginka starts with the welfare business we call now. In 1880, after taking the Rakuzendo's Rakuzen, we opened the "Rakuzenkai Kunblind House" and are engaged in blind education! ! ! As of now, it has been handed over to Japan's only national school for the blind, Special Needs School attached to the University of Tsukuba. The site was built near the current Tsukiji Outer Market, with a monument in the park. By the way, the design of the building was Josaiah Condor, who was active in Japan as an employed 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 nostalgic 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 ended his life in 1905 at the age of 72.
