萩原公子

10020

Trained as an artist, worked as an inventor, invented and marketed the ribbon that goes under cellophane to tear it open, and the spring-loaded cigarette case; businesses ruined by WWII. After the war, had an exclusive contract supplying zori to a major department store (Mitsukoshi?).

12353 <10:3

*1912? JPN
+1979 05 04 Saitama JPN

塩野八重子

Died of liver cancer, aged 67.

10010 <17:3

+1924 09 18

Innkeeper north of Tokyo

塩野丑之助

According to TH 10014, he was the eldest son of a farmer, but decided to go into the ivory trade, and had a shop immediately west of Kaminari-mon in Asakusa, Tokyo, JPN, where as of 2016 she said there is currently a drugstore (at 1-3-2 Asakusa? - does not appear to be a drugstore). She did not know what happened to the second son of the farmer. The third son continued the family tradition, and had a son that was known in the late 20th century as Nerima No Ojiichan, still a farmer (with two sons: Seinosuke and ?), but wealthy due to repeatedly selling his farmland as the city encroached.

12347 <19:4

+1963 07 17

Of noble descent, family crest was go-san-no-kiri (Paulownia leaf with flowers), according to HHC 10002.

12348 <19:4