Kawamura zuiken biography
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- Tōkyō : Sekizenkan, Meiji 41 [1908]
- 東京 : 積善館, 明治 41 [1908]
- 4, 57 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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- Kinsei risshiden ; 5.
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400th Birthday Lumber Merchant Zuiken Kawamura Flood Control Project, around the ship (Togen)
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1618-1699 Zuiken Kawamura, who died 82 years old, was born in poverty.
In "Reputation Zuiken Kawamura" (Hakubunkan), his ancestors are self-proclaimed as servants of Genji Murakami and Kitahata.
It is famous that he went to Edo at the age of 13 and made a living as a car power, and sold vegetables from the Obon offering that were washed away by the river as pickles.
In Iioka, the eastern end of Kujukuri Beach, he was involved in civil engineering work for the Edo shogunate (Kuwana Domain) (reclamation of the Tsubaki Sea / excavation of the Shinkawa River) and gradually increased his assets and started a lumber dealer.
In 1657, he bought up wood from Kiso and Fukushima in the great fire of the Meiryaku era, and gained enormous profits by contracting civil engineering and construction.
1661-1673 During the Kanbun period, along with Masanori Odawara feudal lord Inaba, an old middle-aged Sagami country, from 45 to 75 years old.
Over the past 30 years, the Shogunate and various daimyo are expected to have talent as project leaders, and many flood control and flood control.
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Zuiken Kawamura Edit Profile
Businessman
Zuiken Kawamura was a wealthy merchant of the middle Edo period.
Background
Zuiken Kawamura was born in 1618 bom in the village of Ukura in the province of Ise; Zuiken is a religious name taken when he entered the Buddhist clergy; later he returned to lay life under the name Hiradayu.
Career
He went to Edo at the age of twelve, at first working as a wagon puller, later as a pickle merchant, and finally, after becoming a head of day laborers employed in engineering projects for the shogunate, he opened a lumber business in Edo. In 1657, when the so-called Great Fire of the Meire- ki era destroyed much of the city, he hurried off to Fukushima in the Kiso region, bought up large quantities of lumber, and transported it to Edo, amassing a huge profit in the enterprise. Following this, he acquired further wealth by undertaking various engineering projects for the shogunate.
He was on close terms with such eminent scholars as Arai Hakuseki and others, often assisting them in their financial needs. In recognition of his services, the shogunate in 1698 made him a hatamoto, or direct vassal of the shogun.
Achievements
Not content merely to carry out projects for others, h