Mitsui (family)
The Mitsui family ( Japanese 三井 家 , Mitsui-ke ) is a Japanese family that was one of the three great merchant families during the Edo period and the first family business to found a Zaibatsu after the Meiji Restoration .
An ancestor of the Mitsui house was Takahisa Mitsui, a relative of the Sasaki warrior house from Ōmi and the commander of his own castle. At the time of Takayasu Mitsui, the family moved from Ōmi to Ise and until the time of Takatoshi Mitsui the family lived in the city of Matsusaka in Ise Province.
In 1673 the younger Takatoshi (4th son of the older Takatoshi) had set up a dry goods store in Kyoto and Edo . In 1683 and 1686 he set up exchange offices in Edo and Kyōto and until 1691 he also ran a haberdashery and exchange office in Osaka (so the family had business in the three most important cities of the time).
The success story of the family business Mitsui and later the Zaibatsu lasted more than 250 years. From 1900 the head of the family carried the title "Baron" until 1945. The last holder of this title was Takaharu Mitsui (三井 高 陽; 1900–1983), who, with great ties to Germany, was president of the Japanese-German Society in Tokyo from 1965 until his death .
After the Zaibatsu was disbanded by occupation forces after the Second World War , the companies merged to form a Keiretsu in 1947 . Today it is the Mitsui Group and is active in the areas of steel production , telecommunications , chemical industry and logistics .
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ The Enterprising Spirit of Mitsui Hachirobe-Takatoshi
- ^ Papinot, Edmond: Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan. Reprinted by Tuttle, 1972 edition of 1910 edition. ISBN 0-8048-0996-8 .
- ^ History of Mitsui & Co., Ltd. ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
