Eiichi Shibusawa, who has many titles, is from the Fukaya city in Saitama Prefecture. The two in three great men from Saitama Prefecture, Ginko Hagino, and Hanawa Hokiichi were introduced by my Japanese blog, and I visited the Eiichi Shibusawa Memorial Hall (Hachiki Public Hall, which opened on November 11, 1995). I do not have enough time and paper to introduce him in all, so I would like to write about my visit and what I cannot understand until I see it.
Once, I visited Fukaya City, at a time of a local movie fan who bought a store of a former bank was playing a film, and when I went to care for a Thai who came to Japan for computer training in Saitama Prefecture.
The specialty product of Fukaya City is Fukaya green onion. However, Shibusawa Eiichi is revered as a great man and is proud of Fukaya, Saitama, and Japan. The location of the Tomioka Silk Mill, which has become a World Heritage Site, is in Tomioka City, Gunma Prefecture, but Eiichi Shibusawa has been introduced to know raw silk and indigo dyeing and supported it, a brick manufacturing company has also been established, which is necessary for the factory building with him.
In 2024, the reason the portrait changes of Yukichi Fukuzawa on the 10,000-yen note was deciding to replace with Eiichi Shibusawa was “the father of the modern Japanese economy,” “the theory of moral economy,” and “the last 15th shogun of the Edo period, Yoshinobu Tokugawa.” Above is because they have a track record of “encounters” and “efforts in welfare and education other than the economy.” It is not just a god of management of only one company (involved in about five hundred companies), but this is saying that his skill is in the modernization of the Meiji era, so he is supported by many people and is suitable for becoming the face of the world.
“Modern Japanese Father Eiichi Shibusawa” (published by Fukaya City) is a leaflet printed in March 2021 before the NHK TV dramatized him, but it is well organized.
1. Father of the modern Japanese economy 2.The starting point of businessman 3. From the Joint Staff to the shogun’s vassal 4. Dispatched to Europe 5. From the government to the business world 6. The heart of mercy Social welfare activities 7. Efforts for international goodwill 8. The Analects Village 9. Eiichi and Tomioka Thread Mill 10. Origin of Eiichi’s “Seien” 11. Eiichi, Brick and Fukaya City 12. Boiled noodle with ｗelsh onion* 13. Thirteen items of Eiichi Shibusawa that are currently attracting attention.
Some titles are not understandable without reading, but they are almost covered. There were many signboards in the city, making the most of Eiichi Shibusawa in promoting tourism in Fukaya.
* I have never eaten Niboutou (boiled noodle with onion). However, Fukaya’s local food variety, a soy sauce-flavored noodle dish with plenty of vegetables such as green onions, radishes, and carrots in handmade flat noodles, is introduced in the pamphlet. There are many restaurants in the city with agricultural products sales offices in the suburbs, and the well-known shops I searched for in anticipation of Japanese buckwheat used Shinshu buckwheat flour.
*There are people who have discovered and invented Japan, the world, and everything from many towns and villages, not just Saitama Prefecture. The background for the episode will be known in future research and history. However, some cases do not seem to be great just because they appear in the media and textbooks. Just in case.