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*''Japanese'': 中村家 ''(Nakamura ke)''

*''Japanese'': 中村家 ''(Nakamura ke)''

The Nakamura family of [[Tomonoura]] were prominent [[Edo period]] merchants, brewers, and local officials. Known for their ''homeishu'' (a type of medicinal liquor), the Nakamura family held a variety of local government posts in the [[Inland Sea]] ([[Fukuyama han|Fukuyama domain]]) port-town of Tomonoura, as well as operating the town's ''[[honjin]]'' (official lodging for shogunal & foreign envoys, ''daimyô'', and other elite guests).

The Nakamura family of [[Tomonoura]] were prominent [[Edo period]] merchants, brewers, and local officials. Known for their ''homeishu'' (a type of medicinal liquor), the Nakamura family held a variety of local government posts in the [[Inland Sea]] ([[Fukuyama han|Fukuyama domain]]) port-town of Tomonoura, as well as operating the town's ''[[honjin]]'' (official lodging for shogunal & foreign envoys, ''daimyô'', and other elite guests). The family's records, some 26 volumes collected as the ''[[Nakamura ke nikki]]'' ("Diary of the Nakamura Family"), contain much valuable information about travel, trade, and local administration & events in an early modern [[Inland Sea]] port-town.

According to a section on the family's own lineage, written by family head Nakamura Toshi'emon Toshimasa (aka Toshi'emon II) in [[1701]], the Nakamura family claims descent from [[Tsuji Toshinaga]]<!--辻利長-->, a retainer of [[Imagawa Yoshimoto]] who died at the [[battle of Okehazama]], via Toshinaga's descendant Tsuji Toshiyoshi (aka Kansuke)<!--辻利吉・官介-->. A later descendant, Wakatarô, took on his mother's surname, Nakamura, becoming Nakamura Jôhei Toshitoki<!--中村壌平利時-->. He was active as a physician in [[Osaka]], but his son Yoshinaga<!--吉長--> took on commercial activities. In [[1653]], the family home was destroyed by flood, and two years later, in [[1655]]/11, at the age of 23, Yoshinaga relocated to Tomonoura, with the help of an intellectual named Bankoya Rokurôzaemon who allowed him to rent rooms in his home. A few years later, in [[1658]]/3, Yoshinaga moved out of Bankoya's home, rented a house of his own, and found a wife. The following year, making use of medicinal techniques he learned from his father, he began an enterprise brewing a medicinal liquor; this would later come to be called ''homeishu''.

According to a section on the family's own lineage, written by family head Nakamura Toshi'emon Toshimasa (aka Toshi'emon II) in [[1701]], the Nakamura family claims descent from [[Tsuji Toshinaga]]<!--辻利長-->, a retainer of [[Imagawa Yoshimoto]] who died at the [[battle of Okehazama]], via Toshinaga's descendant Tsuji Toshiyoshi (aka Kansuke)<!--辻利吉・官介-->. A later descendant, Wakatarô, took on his mother's surname, Nakamura, becoming Nakamura Jôhei Toshitoki<!--中村壌平利時-->. He was active as a physician in [[Osaka]], but his son Yoshinaga<!--吉長--> took on commercial activities. In [[1653]], the family home was destroyed by flood, and two years later, in [[1655]]/11, at the age of 23, Yoshinaga relocated to Tomonoura, with the help of an intellectual named Bankoya Rokurôzaemon who allowed him to rent rooms in his home. A few years later, in [[1658]]/3, Yoshinaga moved out of Bankoya's home, rented a house of his own, and found a wife. The following year, making use of medicinal techniques he learned from his father, he began an enterprise brewing a medicinal liquor; this would later come to be called ''homeishu''.