7,049
edits
Changes
mLine 4:
Line 4: +
added image
[[Image:Iwasaki-yataro.gif|frame|right|Photograph of ''Iwasaki Yataro'']]
A ''[[goshi]]'' from [[Tosa province|Tosa]] who headed the han’s trading business in [[Nagasaki]] during the waning days of the [[Tokugawa Bakufu|Shogunate]]. He became a business associate of [[Sakamoto Ryoma]] through the [[Kaientai]] trading operations. Iwasaki was not particularly fond of Ryoma but "business was business". Iwasaki later formed the famous [[Mitsubishi Trading House]] and became one of Japan’s most successful businessmen of the [[Meiji period]].
A ''[[goshi]]'' from [[Tosa province|Tosa]] who headed the han’s trading business in [[Nagasaki]] during the waning days of the [[Tokugawa Bakufu|Shogunate]]. He became a business associate of [[Sakamoto Ryoma]] through the [[Kaientai]] trading operations. Iwasaki was not particularly fond of Ryoma but "business was business". Iwasaki later formed the famous [[Mitsubishi Trading House]] and became one of Japan’s most successful businessmen of the [[Meiji period]].