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*''Born: [[1803]]''
*''Died: [[1874]]/7/29''
*''Other Names'': 中野鉄次郎 ''(Nakano Tetsujirou)''
*''Japanese'': 飯田新七 ''(Iida Shinshichi)''
Iida Shinshichi was the founder of a secondhand clothing shop which later developed into the [[Takashimaya]] department store corporation.
Born in Tsuruga in [[Echizen province]], his childhood name was Nakano Tetsujirô. While apprenticing under a Kyoto [[textiles]] merchant, he took the name Shinshichi. Then, in [[1828]], he married into the family of rice merchant Takashimaya Iida Gihee, whose shop was named after his hometown, in the Takashima district of [[Omi province|Ômi province]]. Shinshichi began selling secondhand clothes out of the rice shop, and in [[1831]], opened his own shop, calling it Takashimaya, and selling secondhand clothes.
He eventually passed on his business to his son, [[Iida Shinshichi II]], under whom it prospered. The business was strong enough, and flexible enough, to survive the turbulent [[Bakumatsu period]] and to adapt to new circumstances after the [[Meiji Restoration]].
==References==
*"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E9%A3%AF%E7%94%B0%E6%96%B0%E4%B8%83%28%E5%88%9D%E4%BB%A3%29 Iida Shinshichi (shodai)]." ''Asahi Nihon rekishi jinbutsu jiten'' 朝日日本歴史人物事典. Asahi Shimbun.
*Conant, Ellen. "Cut from Kyoto Cloth: Takeuchi Seihô and his Artistic Milieu." ''Impressions'' 33 (2012). p75.
[[Category:Merchants]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
*''Died: [[1874]]/7/29''
*''Other Names'': 中野鉄次郎 ''(Nakano Tetsujirou)''
*''Japanese'': 飯田新七 ''(Iida Shinshichi)''
Iida Shinshichi was the founder of a secondhand clothing shop which later developed into the [[Takashimaya]] department store corporation.
Born in Tsuruga in [[Echizen province]], his childhood name was Nakano Tetsujirô. While apprenticing under a Kyoto [[textiles]] merchant, he took the name Shinshichi. Then, in [[1828]], he married into the family of rice merchant Takashimaya Iida Gihee, whose shop was named after his hometown, in the Takashima district of [[Omi province|Ômi province]]. Shinshichi began selling secondhand clothes out of the rice shop, and in [[1831]], opened his own shop, calling it Takashimaya, and selling secondhand clothes.
He eventually passed on his business to his son, [[Iida Shinshichi II]], under whom it prospered. The business was strong enough, and flexible enough, to survive the turbulent [[Bakumatsu period]] and to adapt to new circumstances after the [[Meiji Restoration]].
==References==
*"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E9%A3%AF%E7%94%B0%E6%96%B0%E4%B8%83%28%E5%88%9D%E4%BB%A3%29 Iida Shinshichi (shodai)]." ''Asahi Nihon rekishi jinbutsu jiten'' 朝日日本歴史人物事典. Asahi Shimbun.
*Conant, Ellen. "Cut from Kyoto Cloth: Takeuchi Seihô and his Artistic Milieu." ''Impressions'' 33 (2012). p75.
[[Category:Merchants]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
