Usui Seishisha - Usui Seishisha

...Hagiwara Otokichi, Senpei, and Shigejuro of Higashikamiisobe Village, Usui County, Iwate Prefecture, united sericulture farmers engaged in zaguri silk-reeling to form the Usui Zaguri Seishisha, which shipped silk to Yokohama while working together to return silk to the sea. Inspired by the activities of the Maebashi zaguri association, this attempt was a success, and in the following year, 12 more similar associations appeared in the county and united to form the Usui Seishisha (head office in Haraichi Town). The company was renamed Usui-sha in 1884, and the following year, when Hagiwara Keitaro became president after Hagiwara Otokichi and Shigejuro, it expanded rapidly, and by 1910, when it became the Usui-sha Limited Liability Credit Sales Association under the Industrial Association Law, it had become a huge association with a total of 179 associations (56 of which were from outside the prefecture) and approximately 30,000 members.

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…同県碓氷郡東上磯部村の萩原音吉，同専平，同茂十郎らは座繰製糸を営む養蚕農民を結集して碓氷座繰精糸社を作り，共同揚返しを行いつつ横浜へ出荷した。前橋の座繰結社の活動に触発されたこの試みの成功をみて，翌79年には同様な組合が郡内にさらに12現れ，連合して碓氷精糸社(本社原市町)となった。同社は84年碓氷社と改称，翌年萩原鐐太郎が萩原音吉，同茂十郎に続いて社長となったころから急拡大をとげ，1910年に産業組合法による有限責任信用販売組合連合会碓氷社となった時には合計179組(うち県外56組)，組合員数約3万という巨大結社であった。…

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