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It seems that there was the residence of Eiichi Shibusawa's residence in the neighborhood of Okuma Shigenobu's residence 5,000 tsubo (former Hagimoto Togawa Ara's residence).

It seems that the natural flow was that there is a residence centered on the Okuma House in Tsukiji as a place for discussions near the Ministry of Finance and the core of the government at that time.

Waseda University is holding "Shinobu Okuma and Eiichi Shibusawa Exhibition" at the Honjo Waseda University Museum. https://www.waseda.jp

The ranch of Komakisha, which was run by Eiichi, seems to have been the birthplace of Ryunosuke Akutagawa in 1892, when his father Shinzo Niihara was the manager of a milk sales company. After that, the ranch seems to have been handed over from Eiichi.

For more information, Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent Brob name Hanes-The mystery of the birthplace of Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Komakisha-en-https://tokuhain.chuo-kannkou.or.jp/dotail.php?id=1916

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Saigo Takamori came to consult about the civil law of the Soma Domain. On the other hand, Eiichi insisted that "it is more important to be the counselor's Kokuyasu Civil Code of one country than the story of the Soma clan," and Eiichi said that Saigo was silently resigned. You.

Eiichi had a relationship with Saigo, despite being 12 years younger, at the time of Hitotsubashi retainer at Sokoku-ji Temple in Kyoto, where he was squeezing pork pots and discussing frank discussions. "

Literature "Rongo and Abacco" by Eiichi Shibusawa, Tsunogawa Bunko P.198-200

It is the only existing building in mansion in Eiichi. It would be a strange encounter to move to Rokunohe-cho, Aomori Prefecture and return to the Shimizu Construction Innovation Center in Koto-ku again in 2022.

There were many warehouses on the site exceeding 10,000 tsubo, and it was a place where Oshimakawa (currently Oshima Kawanishi tributary) flowed across the road.

Since the Edo period, there have been many warehouses of wholesalers and various clans, and it also served as a distribution center for rice husks and other supplies.

One of the reasons why Eiichi chose the residence that used to be the home of Kizaemon Omiya, a rice wholesaler in Fukagawa, was because it was attractive as a base for a logistics center that could utilize existing infrastructure.

Document "100th Anniversary Project of the Japan Institute of Cultural Studies Kanagawa University Research Institute for Cultural Properties"

Town magazine Fukagawa "Special feature: Fukagawa where Eiichi Shibusawa lived" 2013. No210 "

A two-story Western-style building with a Venetian Gothic style built along the Nihonbashi River.

Even after moving to Asukayama, it was used as the Shibusawa office and continued to base in Nihonbashi.

Eiichi secretly thought of compiling the biography of Yoshinobu at his own expense. As a restoration of honor, I tried to tell future generations that Yoshinobu was a great meritorious person of the Restoration. At the time of the Boshin war, he had the view that by sticking to the government's stance, the change of government proceeded smoothly and the progress toward the Meiji Restoration was accelerated.

In the compilation process of the biography, a round-table discussion with Yoshinobu was held almost 25 times at the Shibusawa office in total, seven years since 1907, starting in 1907.

Yoshinobu went to Kabuto-cho and responded to interviews with editor historian, but it seems that Eiichi was always accompanied by the place.

Yoshinobu died in 1913 1913, without waiting for the completion of the biography.

"Yoshinobu Tokugawa Koden" was completed in 1917 (1917) with the investment of Eiichi's private property.

I didn't know that Yoshinobu's biography was born from Kabuto-cho.

Purchased the site of the former Satsuma feudal lord Duke Nireikei House, relocated the Fukagawa House, and expanded a two-story Western-style building, making it a Japanese-Western style building.

Document "100th Anniversary Project of the Japan Institute of Culture Kanagawa University"

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Nishigahara, Kita-ku 2-16-1 Western-style tea room "Yokakaken", Aobuchi Bunko released

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Eiichi's 91-year life, who fell asleep in his hometown, seems to have been a suitable way of life to be called the father of the Japanese business community.

The existence of Eiichi Shibusawa is now in close-up.

"Chuo-ku Whole Museum 2021 Event Guide" No. 17 Nihonbashi Library Exhibition "Eiichi Shibusawa related to Nihonbashi"

Please go out between October 29 and December 22.

Nihonbashi Library https://www.library.city.chuo.tokyo.jp/

Monthly Nihonbashi says, "You can also get the monthly magazine of the previous month's issue on Mie Terrace! Please drop in.

Mie Terrace https://mieterrace.owst.jp