Kamaishi Steel Works

Japanese: 釜石製鉄所 - かまいしせいてつじょ
Kamaishi Steel Works

Japan's first modern steelworks. Forerunner of the current Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Kamaishi Steelworks. It began in 1857 (Ansei 4) when Oshima Takato successfully lit Japan's first Western-style blast furnace (daily production of about 2 tons). More blast furnaces were added later, but due to technical and management difficulties, most were abandoned in the early Meiji period. The Meiji government attempted to revive the steelworks by establishing the Kamaishi Steelworks under the Ministry of Public Works in 1874 (Meiji 7), but failed. Tanaka Chobei (1834-1901) acquired the steelworks, and in 1887 it was reopened as the privately run Kamaishi Mines Tanaka Steelworks. It eventually accounted for more than half of the nation's pig iron production. It was reorganized and renamed Tanaka Mines in 1917 (Taisho 6), and Kamaishi Mines in 1924, and transferred to Nippon Steel Corporation in 1934 (Showa 9) following the Great Steel Merger.

[Tachibanakawa Takeo]

[Reference item] | Takato Oshima | Nippon Steel Corporation | Nippon Steel
Kamaishi Mines Tanaka Steel Works
Kamaishi-cho, Kamihei-gun, Iwate Prefecture (present-day Kamaishi City). "Photograph Album Commemorating the Visit of the Crown Prince" (1908, Meiji 41), National Diet Library .

Kamaishi Mines Tanaka Steel Works


Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

日本最初の近代的製鉄所。現在の新日鉄住金釜石製鉄所の前身。1857年(安政4)大島高任(たかとう)が日本初の洋式高炉(日産約2トン)の火入れに成功したのに始まる。その後高炉は増設されたが、技術面、経営面での困難により明治初年にはほとんど廃棄された。明治政府は1874年(明治7)に工部省釜石製鉄所を設置して再興を図ったが失敗。田中長兵衛(1834―1901)が払下げを受け、1887年には民営の釜石鉱山田中製鉄所として再発足した。やがて全国の銑鉄生産高の過半を占めるに至った。1917年(大正6)に田中鉱山、1924年に釜石鉱山と改組改称し、製鉄大合同により1934年(昭和9)日本製鉄に移管された。

[橘川武郎]

[参照項目] | 大島高任 | 新日本製鉄(株) | 日本製鉄
釜石鉱山田中製鉄所
岩手県上閉伊郡釜石町(現在の釜石市)。『東宮行啓紀念写真帖』(1908年〈明治41〉)国立国会図書館所蔵">

釜石鉱山田中製鉄所


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