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Map of Japanese provinces (1868) with Echigo Province highlighted Hiroshige ukiyo-e" Echigo " in "The Famous Scenes of the Sixty States" (六十余州名所図会), depicting Oyashirazu cliffs. Echigo Province (越後国, Echigo no kuni) was an old province in north-central Japan, on the shores of the Sea of Japan.
His grandfather was a samurai and governor of Echigo Province Mitsui Takayasu, who was later exiled to Matsusaka after being defeated by Oda Nobunaga. Mitsui's father Takatoshi abandoned his katana , thus renouncing his status as a samurai, and established himself as a sake and miso merchant and a pawnbroker .
The Mitsui family (三井家, Mitsui-ke) is one of the most powerful families of merchants and industrialists in Japan.. The Mitsui enterprise (present-day Mitsui Group) was established in 1673 when Mitsui Takatoshi (1622–1694), the son of merchant parents, established Echigoya, a dry goods department store in both Edo and Kyoto, which later became the Mitsukoshi department store chain.
It is located in Echigo Province, Honshū. The domain was centered at Nagaoka Castle , located in what is now part of the city of Nagaoka in Niigata Prefecture . [ 1 ] It was often referred to as Echigo-Nagaoka Domain ( 越後長岡藩 , Echigo-Nagaoka-han ) to disambiguate itself from the smaller Yamashiro-Nagaoka Domain ( 山城長岡藩 ...
After the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate, he was confirmed in his existing holdings, which extended across the Echigo Plain between the Agano River and the Shinano River. This area, which stretched from eastern Niigata City , through Agano , Kamo and Minamikanbara District was excellent rice land, and the actual revenues of the domain ...
The Uesugi clan (上杉氏, Uesugi-shi, historically also Uyesugi) is a Japanese samurai clan which was at its peak one of the most powerful during the Muromachi and Sengoku periods (14th to 17th centuries). [1]
The House of Light (French: La Chambre blanche, lit."The White Room") is a Canadian drama film, directed by Jean Pierre Lefebvre and released in 1969. [1] The film stars Marcel Sabourin and Michèle Magny as a husband and wife who are interacting entirely in their bedroom, engaging in conversations about their relationship while the scenery outside their bedroom window provides the only major ...
Harbin Opera House, 2015 – Harbin, China [2] [3] Tunnel of Light – Echigo, Japan [4] Shenzhen Bay Culture Park - Shenzhen, China; Pingtan Art Museum - Pingtan ...