Shozo Inoue

Japanese: 井上省三 - いのうえ・しょうぞう

Year of death: December 14, 1886 (Meiji 19)
Year of birth: October 15, 1845 (November 14, 1845)
An engineer from the Meiji period. Manager of a government-run Western-style woolen textile factory. The second son of village headman Hakunose Hyoe and Sato of Utsui Village, Asa County, Nagato Province (Yamaguchi Prefecture), he was wealthy, but was adopted by Inoue Han'emon and participated in the overthrow of the shogunate as the commander of the Kiheitai. After the Meiji Restoration, he accompanied Kido Takayoshi to Tokyo, and from February 1871 (Meiji 4) he studied in Berlin, where he decided to switch from military science to industry. He studied woolen weaving techniques from 1872 to 1873, and returned to Japan in January 1876 to join the Ministry of Home Affairs' Industrial Promotion Bureau, and in September 1889 he became the first manager of Senju Carpet Factory. He joined the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce in 1881 and the Army in 1896, but left behind a memoir that shows the origins of industrial development, saying, "I will prevent imports as a model not only for the Army but also for the Japanese woolen textile industry." <References> Inoue Shozo Memorial Committee eds., "The Life of Inoue Shozo," "A Brief History of Senju Carpet Works over 50 Years," Kobayashi Masaaki, "The Issue of the Sale of Senju Carpet Works" (Historical Research on Corporate Activities)

(Masaaki Kobayashi)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：明治19.12.14(1886)
生年：弘化2.10.15(1845.11.14)
明治時代の技術者。官営洋式毛織物工場長。長門国(山口県)厚狭郡宇津井村の庄屋伯野瀬兵衛とさとの次男で富裕であったが,井上半右衛門の養子となり奇兵隊隊長として倒幕に参加,維新後,木戸孝允に随い上京,明治4(1871)年2月よりベルリン留学で兵学から工業への転向を決意,5年から8年まで毛織技術修得,帰国して9年1月内務省勧業寮へ,12年9月千住製絨所初代所長。同所は14年農商務省,21年陸軍に所属するが「陸軍だけでなく日本毛織物工業の亀鑑として輸入を防ぐ」という殖産興業の原点を示す手記を残す。<参考文献>井上省三記念事業委員会編『井上省三伝』,『千住製絨所五十年略史』,小林正彬「千住製絨所の払下げ問題」(『企業者活動の史的研究』)

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