Ishikawajima Shipyard

Japan's first Western-style shipyard was built by the Mito Domain on Ishikawajima at the mouth of the Sumida River in 1853 (Kaei 6) by order of the shogunate. At the time, Ishikawajima was a corner of Tsukudajima in Edo, where a labor camp was located, and the facility was built at the expense of Mito Domain lord Tokugawa Nariaki, who built four sailing ships and one steam gunboat at the end of the Edo period. After the Meiji Restoration, the jurisdiction of the facility was transferred from the Ministry of War to the Ministry of the Navy in 1872 (Meiji 5), and four years later it was sold to a private company and operated as the privately-run Hirano Shipyard under Hirano Tomij. Many merchant ships and warships were built there. In 1893, the company was founded as Tokyo Ishikawajima Shipyard Co., Ltd., in 1945 (Showa 20) it became Ishikawajima Heavy Industries, in 1960 it was renamed Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries, and in 2007 (Heisei 19) it was renamed IHI, as it is today.

[Hiromi Ishizuka]

"Modern Japanese Industrial Development History, Volume 9: Shipbuilding" edited by Eiichi Kaneko (1964, Modern Japanese Industrial Development History Research Association)

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1853年（嘉永6）、幕命により、水戸藩が隅田(すみだ)川河口の石川島につくった日本最初の洋式造船所。当時、江戸・佃島(つくだじま)の一角で人足寄場(よせば)があった石川島に、水戸藩主徳川斉昭(なりあき)が費用を投じて建設した施設で、幕末に帆船4、蒸気砲艦1隻を建造。明治維新後、兵部省所管から、1872年（明治5）海軍省へ移管され、その4年後には民間に払い下げられて、平野富二(とみじ)のもとで民営平野造船所として経営。多数の商船や軍艦を建造した。1893年に株式会社東京石川島造船所、1945年（昭和20）に石川島重工業となり、さらに1960年に石川島播磨(はりま)重工業、2007年（平成19）にIHIと改称され、現在に至っている。

［石塚裕道］

『金子栄一編『現代日本産業発達史第九巻　造船』（1964・現代日本産業発達史研究会）』

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