Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 November 1945 — Page 22

By OLAND C. RUSSELL Scripps-Howard Staft Welder Little (Author of “The Raum ot Piles “WASHINGTON, Nov. 14~The house of the three wells is being broken up in Tokyo. A Gen, MacArthur order aimed at the Zaibatsu, the financial oligarehj of Jagan, bad the Miss t the head the list, Their business has been frozen and the wealthy Mitsui family is withdrawing from the complex Mitsui financial organization. The name Mitsui means “three wells.” The Mitsuis trace their lineage back to . the Fujiwaras claim descent from the “gods” that : : created Japan. ALL AMERICAN BUS DEPOT | 1; js Mitsui tradition that the an226 North Hlinels Street cestor who first bestowed that name Phase: Linseln 328 upon himself had found three wells ~~ : on his land. In one was a gold MERICAN hoard evidently left by bandits who never returned. BUS LINES, nc. ‘Once of Warrior Caste The three wells are incorporated RORISONONISRNTNNNNY (in the Mitsui crest, a diamond with three horizontal bars in the center. When Japan was closed to the joutside world in 1638 the Mitsui family was still of the patrician or warrior caste. It was bald, fat-faced Sokubei’ who launched the family upon its commercial career, The Mitsuis were down at the heels when Sokubei made a trip to Tokyo—then Yedo—and saw the despised -caste .of. merchants and tradesmen getting rich off the samurai in the city. He returned fo his home in Matsuzaka and assembling his family announced: “The Mitsuis must get money”— a startling edict, almost heresy for one of his rank, “No longer

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Wife Opened Hock Shop Sake is a fermented rice drink. is a standard Japanese condiment that adds piquancy to their tasteless dishes. : Sokubei Mitsul had an enterprising wife. When the Mitsui sake shop got off to a slow start, she opened a hock shop on the same premises. Business picked up immediately, The samurai ‘conld hock their swords for money to buy Mitsui sake without going around the block. Sokubei’s wife outlived her husband by 40 years. She was a stringsaver and a shrewd trader. She exerted a firm guiding hand on their son Hachirobei who became the real founder of the financial house of Mitsui, She picked his wife who bore him six sons, the forebears of the six main family branches in the modern house of Mitsul. Five other collateral branches were added later. Dry Goods Merchant In 1673 when Hachirobei Mitsui was 52, he packed up his family and moved to Kyoto. He opened a dry goods store and hung out a famous Mitsui sign, still preserved, In bold Japanese characters burned in hardwood, and surrounded by the Mitsui three-bar crest, it read: “Cash payments and one price only.” It was a drastic innovation, The one-price-only procluded bargaining, which seems to be a birthright of all orientals, The Mitsuis made it stick and it was successful. ‘The emperor's fortune recently was estimated at $106,000,000, In 1037 the private holdings of Baron Takakimi Mitsui, head of the house, were estimated at $130,000,000, When the baron came into the estate of his father who retired in 1933 his taxable inheritance was assessed at about $55,000,000.

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