Manuscript archive of the organizer of the auction of the collections of the Osada family in Osaka

by Kajimaya Osada Sakubei 加島屋長田作兵衛 Auction

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Osaka: 1868. The Osada Sakubei merchant family in Osaka, one of the wealthiest of that great business city, was founded in 1626. Initially rice brokers, they soon expanded into the very lucrative business of providing loans to powerful feudal lords daimyō . With the establishment of the Meiji Restoration in 1868 and the abolition of the domain system, the traditional function of Japanese merchant banks was transformed, and the Osada Sakubei,

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