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=Iwasaki Yataro=
*''Born: [[1834]]''
* ''Died: [[1885]]''
* Japanese: 岩崎弥太郎''(Iwasaki Yataro)''
A ''goshi'' from Tosa who headed the han’s trading business in Nagasaki during the waning days of the Shogunate. He became a business associate of 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.
==References==
*Hillsborough, Romulus. ''RYOMA- Life of a Renaissance Samurai''. Ridgeback Press, 1999
*Jansen, Marius B. ''Sakamoto Ryoma and the Meiji Restoration''. Columbia University Press, 1994.
*''Born: [[1834]]''
* ''Died: [[1885]]''
* Japanese: 岩崎弥太郎''(Iwasaki Yataro)''
A ''goshi'' from Tosa who headed the han’s trading business in Nagasaki during the waning days of the Shogunate. He became a business associate of 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.
==References==
*Hillsborough, Romulus. ''RYOMA- Life of a Renaissance Samurai''. Ridgeback Press, 1999
*Jansen, Marius B. ''Sakamoto Ryoma and the Meiji Restoration''. Columbia University Press, 1994.
