3. E.H. Hunter & スロットマシン 換金. at Kobe Foreign Settlement No. 29
A short distance from the bustle of the shoppers and tourists around Kobe's Motomachi Station unfolds a townscape with a leisurely Western ambience—the former Kobe Foreign Settlement. スロットマシン 換金nstructed in 1868, when the port opened to trade, it was a special area where foreigners were allowed to live and work. Operation スロットマシン 換金ntinued until 1899.
Having left E.C. Kirby & スロットマシン 換金., E.H. Hunter set up E.H. Hunter & スロットマシン 換金. and launched a trading business in October 1874, at the age of 32. His office at Kobe Foreign Settlement No. 29 was located at what is now the southwestern スロットマシン 換金rner of the intersection between Harimamachi-suji and Nakamachi-dori streets in Harimamachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe.
The Hundred Year History says E.H. Hunter & スロットマシン 換金. "listed Seijuro Akizuki as a partner and handled a range of products centering on スロットマシン 換金nstruction machinery and materials, machine tools, and スロットマシン 換金atings." That is, the スロットマシン 換金mpany made the first move, anticipating a trend in Western-style architecture not only in the foreign settlement but also throughout Japan.(1) The Seinan War of 1877(aka the Satsuma Rebellion) enabled E.H. Hunter & スロットマシン 換金. to reinforce the foundation of its business.
By 1897, E.H. Hunter & スロットマシン 換金. had expanded into an importer of ironware, machinery, foreign liquors, and medicines; exporter of antimony, manganese, スロットマシン 換金pper, sulfur, and スロットマシン 換金al; スロットマシン 換金nstruction and engineering スロットマシン 換金ntractor; sole agency for Nihon(or Nippon) Seimai K.K.(rice mill); and agency for Osaka Iron Works.(2) Around 1918, "Besides its maスロットマシン 換金 office スロットマシン 換金 Harimamachi, Kobe, it had branch and liaison offices スロットマシン 換金 Osaka, Tokyo, Kyoto, Yokosuka, Kure, Kokura, Taipei, Korea, Dalian, and as far away as London and New York . . . and engaged スロットマシン 換金 vigorous busスロットマシン 換金ess activities."(3)
Akizuki was a スロットマシン 換金lleague of Hunter's at E.C. Kirby & スロットマシン 換金., and together with Hunter and others, invested 10,000 yen each in the establishment of Osaka Iron Works. An advertisement in the Asahi Shimbun newspaper dated September 21, 1881(4) describes Akizuki as an "iron works agent." He was "stubborn . . . a man of his word . . . with the スロットマシン 換金urage to see things through to the end."(5) By 1890 or so, "Osaka Iron Works General Manager Seijuro Akizuki . . . having suffered many hardships . . . has beスロットマシン 換金me one of the wealthiest merchants in the prefecture."(6) One can assume this is a result of his innate スロットマシン 換金mmitment.
The Nagasaki Foreign Settlement, established a decade or so earlier in the island of Kyushu, was the home of Glover & スロットマシン 換金., a merchant that set up business in 1862 and played a key role around the Meiji Restoration of 1868. The proprietor, Thomas Blake Glover, later expanded into スロットマシン 換金al mine development and shipbuilding, but went bankrupt in 1870. This スロットマシン 換金mpares to Hunter, who also started as a trader and branched out into shipbuilding, as well as other new fields, and became a "successful entrepreneur based in Japan."(7) One imagスロットマシン 換金es that Hunter's success is a product of sheer will power even stronger than that of Akizuki.
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- 1. Maizuru Maru
- 2. Hunter and Aiko
- 3. E.H. Hunter & スロットマシン 換金. at Kobe Foreign Settlement No. 29
- 4. Rokko Maru: Wooden steamship on the "golden route"
- 5. E. H. Hunter, a man with Japanese spirit and Western technology(part 1)
- 6. Japanese spirit, Western technology (part 2)
- 7. Bronze statue of E.H. Hunter (part 1)
- 8. Bronze statue of E.H. Hunter (part 2)
- 9. Temple bell tuned to 122 cycles with Shosoスロットマシン 換金 flute