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Zeniya Gohei. Zeniya Gohei (銭屋五兵衛, 1774-1852) was a Japanese merchant and engineer in the Edo period. Gohei was born to a family of money-changers in Kaga province.
Zeniya Gohei was born in 1773 in Kaga, Hokkaido, Japan. He was born to a family who for generations were in the money exchange business (Zeniya means money dealer).
Jul 5, 2001 · The strange affair began innocuously enough. In the summer of 1851, Zeniya Gohei, a prominent merchant in Kaga han, started a land reclamation project on Kahoku inlet, which lies about three miles northwest of Kanazawa upon the Sea of Japan.
1851, Zeniya Gohei, a prominent merchant in Kaga han, started a land reclamation project on Kahoku inlet, which lies about three miles northwest of Kanazawa upon the Sea of Japan.
This museum memorializes Zeniya Gohei, a maritime merchant who lived at the end of the Edo period, engaged in trade across Japan and with other nations during a time of national isolation using kitamaebune cargo ships, and supported the one million “koku” economy of Kaga.
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Mar 23, 2011 · Zeniya Gohei is said to have been friendly with a student of Honda Toshiaki and with Benkichi of ōno Machi, an inventor reputed to have been opposed to national seclusion (sakoku). See Kaburaki, pp. 35. 194–195.
Zeniya Aluminum Engineering, Ltd. When the late Mr.Isaburo Takeyasu,the founder of the companies in the Zeniya Alminum Group,started his company,he named it ZENIYA,after Mr.Zeniya Gohei,one of the greatest merchants in the Edo Period and whose activities extended from Kurl Island and Kamchatka to the Island of Tasmania,Australia.After ...
