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(★)´BIO-0036´es mismo libro. (Shibusawa Eiichi [1840-1931] is known as the great banker-entrepreneur of Meiji Japan. He is credited with creating an industrial empire, and his name is associated with the founding of numerous banks, insurance firms, shipyards, and public utilities -companies in every major field of finance and industry. His autobiography [Amayo-gatari], regarded as a classic in its genre, is a personal account Shibusawa wished to leave for his family, and covers the years from his birth as the son of a well-to-do peasant to his years as a Ministry of Finance official. Shibusawa grew up in the Bakumatsu period, the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate. The story of this ambitious young man and his frustrations with the traditional order is a remarkable record of the great social and political transformations of the time. He left his family business and found work at the House of Hitotsubashi and was fortunate to be selected to participate in the delegation to the Paris Universal Exposition in 1867. His observations of the industrial progress in the West are recorded in´the Journal of a Voyage to the West´[Koosei nikki], excerpts of which are included in this volume. This autobiography is a lively and human work, and its availability in English gives a newly three-dimentional picture of Bakumatsu and early Meiji history. Teruko Craig teaches at Tufts University. She has previously translated´Musui´s Story : The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai,´by Katsu Kokichi.) |
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