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[[Image:Hagiwarateagarden-shoromon.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The ''Shôrômon'' (Bell Tower Gate) at the [[Hagiwara Tea Garden]] in [[San Francisco]], built by Nakatani Shinshichi.]]
*''Born: [[1846]]''
*''Died: 1922''
*''Japanese'': [[中谷]]新七 ''(Nakatani Shinshichi)''

Nakatani Shinshichi was a farmer from Jigozen-mura, [[Hiroshima prefecture]], who was commissioned to build a Taiko-bashi (Drum Bridge) for the [[1894]] [[San Francisco]] Midwinter Fair.

He sold his family's rice fields to be able to afford the construction of the bridge and bell tower gate (''shôrômon''), which remain today a part of the [[Hagiwara Tea Garden]]. Shinshichi's son remained in San Francisco for nearly fifty years, working to try to earn the funds to re-purchase the family's fields.

==References==
*Plaque on-site at the Hagiwara Tea Garden, San Francisco.

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