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"Bad Sushi or Bad Merchant? The ‘Dead Fish Poisoning Incident’ of 1852,"
''Modern Asian Studies'' (2001), Vol. 35, pp. 513-531
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/ref> In mid-1852, a large number of dead fish floated to the surface of the inlet near the worksite; and some local people died after eating the dead fish. Gohei and his family were deemed responsible; and they were imprisoned. It is likely that these criminal charges were contrived as a subterfuge which enabled the clan to seize his considerable wealth.Sansom, George. (1963). The seventy-eight-year-old Gohei died within three months of his incarceration.
OCLC 48943301
* Sansom, George Bailey. (1963). ''A History of Japan, 1615-1867.''] Stanford: Stanford University Press. ;
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Kanazawa and Zeniya Gohei (Kitamae-bune Travel)
1773 births 1852 deaths Japanese businesspeople
Gohei and Kitamae ships
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was a Japanese
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merchant and engineer in the Edo period
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Gohei was born to a family of money-changers in Kaga province
was a province of Japan in the area that is today the south and western portion of Ishikawa Prefecture in the Hokuriku region of Japan. Kaga bordered on Echizen, Etchū, Hida, and Noto Provinces. It was part of Hokurikudō Circuit. Its ...
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Coastal shipping
Gohei was put in charge of developing a coastal shipping fleet (''kitamae'' ships) for the Tokugawa shogunate; and he became very rich from trading, especially rice and lumber.Land reclamation project
In the summer of 1851, Gohei attempted a land reclamation project in Kahoku Lake, which is north of Kanazawa on the Sea of Japan. He planned to create rice paddies; but the project failed.Shimoda, Hiraku"Bad Sushi or Bad Merchant? The ‘Dead Fish Poisoning Incident’ of 1852,"
''Modern Asian Studies'' (2001), Vol. 35, pp. 513-531
JSTOR
/ref> In mid-1852, a large number of dead fish floated to the surface of the inlet near the worksite; and some local people died after eating the dead fish. Gohei and his family were deemed responsible; and they were imprisoned. It is likely that these criminal charges were contrived as a subterfuge which enabled the clan to seize his considerable wealth.Sansom, George. (1963). The seventy-eight-year-old Gohei died within three months of his incarceration.
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References
* Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). ''Japan Encyclopedia.'' Cambridge:Harvard University Press
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. OCLC 48943301
* Sansom, George Bailey. (1963). ''A History of Japan, 1615-1867.''] Stanford: Stanford University Press. ;
Further reading
* Wakabayashi, Kisaburo. (1957). Osaka: SōgenshaOCLC 033644769
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Zeniya Gohei Memorial Hall (Japan Travel)
Kanazawa and Zeniya Gohei (Kitamae-bune Travel)
1773 births 1852 deaths Japanese businesspeople
Gohei and Kitamae ships
* IMDb
Zeniya Gohei (1913) ''Zeniya Gohei'' (1913)
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