Tomb of Shibusawa Eiichi (Yanaka Cemetery)
東京都
The face of the 10,000-yen note — Japan's 'father of capitalism' who helped found 500 companies is buried here in Yanaka
The tomb of Shibusawa Eiichi (1840–1931), hailed as "the father of Japanese capitalism." Born into a wealthy farming family in Chi'araijima (now Fukaya, Saitama), he served Hitotsubashi Yoshinobu, traveled to Europe as a member of the mission to the Paris Exposition — where he learned the joint-stock company system — and after serving briefly in the Meiji government's Finance Ministry, devoted his…
Shibusawa Eiichi was born in 1840 in Chiaraijima village, Musashi Province (present-day Fukaya, Saitama), into a prosperous farming family. During the late Edo period he served Hitotsubashi Yoshinobu, and in 1867 traveled to Europe as a member of the Japanese mission to the Paris Exposition, where h…
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