Date and time: Sunday, November 20, 2022 13:30 to 15:00
Route: Around Nakanoshima from Fukushima Port Town
<Talk speaker>
Yasuro Takatsuki (Associate Professor, Institute of Economic Management, Kobe University)
Kazujijin (Department of Arts and Sciences, Osaka Science Museum)
The presentation of this project was planned by Associate Professor Yasuo Takatsuki and the author (Kakazu) of Kobe University, but due to circumstances, the author was invited to participate online in a hurry.
The ship departs from the Hotarumachi Port, descends from Dojima River, goes back from the western end of Nakanoshima to Tosabori River at Hachikenya Beach, thenDojima River again.
Participants were given a special map of the area around Nakanoshima, which was traced and edited by Professor Takatsuki on a map of Osaka published about 220 years ago.
Around the Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka, the houses of the Hiroshima and Kurume clans were once lined up, and an octopus pine stood. Daido Life, which has a building on the south side of Higobashi, was founded by the Hirooka family, who ran Kashimaya, one of the leading Australian merchants in modern Osaka. In addition, on the site of Aiju Kindergarten, located in the southeast of Yodoyabashi, there was the shogunate government office, the copper trading, which was an important export product of the Edo period. Finally, Dojima Rice Market was located on the north side of Dojima River, near the middle of Ohebashi and Watanabebashi. It is the center of rice trading in early modern times, with futures trading in addition to spot trading.
Mr. Takatsuki's story, who knew the Osaka economy in the past, was very interesting, and the details of daily transactions in the U.S. market and the introduction of people who tell the whole country about the rice price that changes from time to time at the flag signal were detailed, It was as if I was in the rice market.
The talk also extended to Banto Yamagata, an Osaka townspeople who are familiar with both economics and science. Banmo, the guard of the rice wholesaler, Masuya, was a great merchant who successfully rebuilt the Sendai clan's finances in terms of economics and discussed the advantages of futures trading. He is also familiar with Western astronomy in the field of science, and advocated a magnificent cosmology that there are many stars living in a wide space, and can be said to be a person who has condensed the free ideas and actions of modern Osaka people.
By looking at the city from an economic and scientific perspective, it was a cruise where various people gathered and reaffirmed the vibrant past and present of Nakanoshima.
Report writing: Kazujijin (Department of Arts and Sciences, Osaka Science Museum)
