¡Betsuko Taihei Ki Ehime Nihama Betsu Kodozan Monogatari Jo(Tokuma Bunko I 44-31 Tokuma Jidai Shosetsu Bunko)
¡Ikawa Kaori Shiro / Cho
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[Machine Translation] Reign of the fifth shogun, Tsunayoshi Tokugawa. Copper was discovered in Besshi, south of Nii County in Iyo Province. Upon receiving this information, Yanagisawa Yasuaki, a close retainer of the shogunate, ordered Shigehide Ogiwara, an accountant, to develop a copper mine in order to improve the tight finances of the shogunate. He appointed Goto Kakuemon, who had visited mines in many countries, as his deputy. Goto asked for the cooperation of Izumiya, a copper merchant who was a branch of the wealthy Osaka merchant Sumitomo. This was the beginning of the 283-year history of the Besshi Copper Mine.
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