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data-interaction-id=\"acb6c68\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-id=\"acb6c68\">CREATOR<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"e-6c815981-ac4a36a e-paragraph-base\" data-interaction-id=\"6c815981\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-id=\"6c815981\">Iwamoto Jir\u014d<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<hr class=\"e-6fe50e2f-833dcf1 e-divider-base\" data-interaction-id=\"6fe50e2f\"  data-e-type=\"widget\" data-id=\"6fe50e2f\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-47423c02 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"47423c02\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"e-57499792-8cdf557 e-paragraph-base\" data-interaction-id=\"57499792\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-id=\"57499792\">DATE<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"e-68eebcc1-728b7af e-paragraph-base\" data-interaction-id=\"68eebcc1\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-id=\"68eebcc1\">Meiji 10 (1877)<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<hr class=\"e-4bbc0bca-68059ea e-divider-base\" data-interaction-id=\"4bbc0bca\"  data-e-type=\"widget\" data-id=\"4bbc0bca\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5d2e4633 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"5d2e4633\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"e-74c51575-5b9afd5 e-paragraph-base\" data-interaction-id=\"74c51575\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-id=\"74c51575\">ACCESS<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"e-79ca279b-39e29b8 e-paragraph-base\" data-interaction-id=\"79ca279b\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-id=\"79ca279b\">Reference for The Street had no Name<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7cc66b e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"7cc66b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-61dd600b e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"61dd600b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"e-3d96e6b1-9891d98 e-paragraph-base\" data-interaction-id=\"3d96e6b1\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-id=\"3d96e6b1\">HOUSE RECORDS<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 data-interaction-id=\"37be4d84\" class=\"e-37be4d84-05b390d e-heading-base\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-id=\"37be4d84\">On the ki Supporting Other Houses<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"e-24dda417-e9be812 e-paragraph-base\" data-interaction-id=\"24dda417\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-id=\"24dda417\">Meiji 10 (1877)<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-45b27bd2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"45b27bd2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"360\" data-end=\"390\">The country moves quickly now.<\/p><p data-start=\"392\" data-end=\"635\">New machines arrive from abroad. New offices are formed. New expectations appear before the old ones have fully settled. Some Houses will prosper in such a time. Others will struggle to maintain the conditions that once allowed them to endure.<\/p><p data-start=\"637\" data-end=\"883\">A House founded upon a single craft may pass through many generations when the world moves slowly. When the pace increases, that same strength may become fragile. The work remains sound, yet the circumstances that supported it begin to disappear.<\/p><p data-start=\"885\" data-end=\"930\">This matter has occupied my thoughts of late.<\/p><p data-start=\"932\" data-end=\"1107\">Our <em data-start=\"936\" data-end=\"940\">ki<\/em> was established to serve the needs of the <em data-start=\"983\" data-end=\"987\">ie<\/em>. Yet its structure gathers labour, knowledge and resources in ways that a single household cannot easily sustain alone.<\/p><p data-start=\"1109\" data-end=\"1159\">It may be that this structure has another purpose.<\/p><p data-start=\"1161\" data-end=\"1338\">If carefully governed, the <em data-start=\"1188\" data-end=\"1192\">ki<\/em> might provide a place where Houses whose work still possesses value may continue, even when the conditions that once supported them have altered.<\/p><p data-start=\"1340\" data-end=\"1527\">The <strong data-start=\"1344\" data-end=\"1358\">Mori House<\/strong> offers one example. Its future might have been uncertain had events continued as they were. Within the <em data-start=\"1462\" data-end=\"1466\">ki<\/em>, however, its labour and experience may yet find proper use.<\/p><p data-start=\"1529\" data-end=\"1604\">Such arrangements should not be understood as the disappearance of a House.<\/p><p data-start=\"1606\" data-end=\"1634\">A House must remain a House.<\/p><p data-start=\"1636\" data-end=\"1690\">Its discipline, its memory and its name must continue.<\/p><p data-start=\"1692\" data-end=\"1773\">The <em data-start=\"1696\" data-end=\"1700\">ki<\/em> would merely provide the ground upon which those things may still stand.<\/p><p data-start=\"1775\" data-end=\"1868\">If this proves possible, there may be other Houses whose circumstances resemble that of Mori.<\/p><p data-start=\"1870\" data-end=\"1988\">It would not be difficult to imagine several such Houses working within the same structure while remaining themselves.<\/p><p data-start=\"1990\" data-end=\"2041\">Such a course would require patience and restraint.<\/p><p 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class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5821491d e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"5821491d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"e-418d5222-7f916b5 e-paragraph-base\" data-interaction-id=\"418d5222\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-id=\"418d5222\">CREATOR<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"e-6f789711-a022a61 e-paragraph-base\" data-interaction-id=\"6f789711\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-id=\"6f789711\">Dr Kenji Morita<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<hr class=\"e-6e397d5d-6a1ede6 e-divider-base\" data-interaction-id=\"6e397d5d\"  data-e-type=\"widget\" data-id=\"6e397d5d\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7fd612f5 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"7fd612f5\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"e-7fb5737d-5e9b802 e-paragraph-base\" data-interaction-id=\"7fb5737d\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-id=\"7fb5737d\">DATE<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"e-239cda2b-8d71f0d e-paragraph-base\" data-interaction-id=\"239cda2b\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-id=\"239cda2b\">Reiwa 6 (2024)<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<hr class=\"e-75405ba3-549e699 e-divider-base\" data-interaction-id=\"75405ba3\"  data-e-type=\"widget\" data-id=\"75405ba3\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-73cf2206 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"73cf2206\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"e-3123e75f-f631466 e-paragraph-base\" data-interaction-id=\"3123e75f\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-id=\"3123e75f\">ACCESS<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"e-64b05810-0b3dd94 e-paragraph-base\" data-interaction-id=\"64b05810\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-id=\"64b05810\">Reference for The Street had no Name<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f1d1dc2 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"f1d1dc2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-33cb8fac e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"33cb8fac\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 data-interaction-id=\"1fdd62f1\" class=\"e-1fdd62f1-ddf722b e-heading-base\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-id=\"1fdd62f1\">ARCHIVAL NOTE<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"e-4f50d065-9ceb77e e-paragraph-base\" data-interaction-id=\"4f50d065\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-id=\"4f50d065\">Reiwa 6 (2024)<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3fec58c9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3fec58c9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"300\" data-end=\"497\">The undated memorandum reproduced here represents the earliest known instance in which <strong data-start=\"387\" data-end=\"403\">Jir\u014d Iwamoto<\/strong> articulated what would later become a defining institutional principle of the <strong data-start=\"482\" data-end=\"496\">Iwamoto ki<\/strong>.<\/p><p data-start=\"499\" data-end=\"844\">Though written in the form of a private reflection rather than a formal directive, the memorandum clearly demonstrates that Jir\u014d had begun to consider the <em data-start=\"654\" data-end=\"658\">ki<\/em> not merely as the operational arm of the Iwamoto <em data-start=\"708\" data-end=\"712\">ie<\/em>, but as a structure capable of sustaining the work of other Houses whose circumstances might otherwise place their future in doubt.<\/p><p data-start=\"846\" data-end=\"1113\">The example of the <strong data-start=\"865\" data-end=\"879\">Mori House<\/strong>, referenced in the memorandum, appears to have been the immediate catalyst for this line of thought. Yet the significance of the document lies not in the particular case, but in the broader conception Jir\u014d was beginning to formulate.<\/p><p data-start=\"1115\" data-end=\"1314\">He recognised that the rapid transformation of the Meiji economy would expose many small Houses\u2014particularly those founded upon a single craft or trade\u2014to conditions that could easily overwhelm them.<\/p><p data-start=\"1316\" data-end=\"1416\">His solution was not consolidation through absorption, but continuity through institutional support.<\/p><p data-start=\"1418\" data-end=\"1533\">Over the decades that followed, the <strong data-start=\"1454\" data-end=\"1468\">Iwamoto ki<\/strong> developed a distinctive practice that reflected this early idea.<\/p><p data-start=\"1535\" data-end=\"1693\">In numerous instances, the House invited another enterprise to join the <em data-start=\"1607\" data-end=\"1611\">ki<\/em> under arrangements deliberately designed to preserve both dignity and continuity.<\/p><p data-start=\"1695\" data-end=\"1851\">The Iwamoto House would typically purchase the business outright through immediate payment, thereby securing the financial stability of the founding family.<\/p><p data-start=\"1853\" data-end=\"2008\">Operational stewardship of the enterprise, however, was often entrusted to members of that same House, who continued to manage the work as they had before.<\/p><p data-start=\"2010\" data-end=\"2147\">In addition to the stipends associated with their labour, arrangements were frequently made to provide annuities for the founding family.<\/p><p data-start=\"2149\" data-end=\"2313\">These payments recognised that the enterprise remained an expression of the House that had created it, even while operating within the larger structure of the <em data-start=\"2308\" data-end=\"2312\">ki<\/em>.<\/p><p data-start=\"2315\" data-end=\"2398\">Ownership in such circumstances was therefore both clear and unusually transparent.<\/p><p data-start=\"2400\" data-end=\"2554\">The <strong data-start=\"2404\" data-end=\"2418\">Iwamoto ki<\/strong> provided capital, protection and institutional continuity, while the original House retained its name, its discipline and its identity.<\/p><p data-start=\"2556\" data-end=\"2596\">This approach proved remarkably durable.<\/p><p data-start=\"2598\" data-end=\"2755\">By the early twentieth century, the <strong data-start=\"2634\" data-end=\"2648\">Iwamoto ki<\/strong> had come to include a number of enterprises whose origins lay in Houses that had once stood independently.<\/p><p data-start=\"2757\" data-end=\"2903\">In most cases, the relationship was understood not as the disappearance of a House, but as its continuation within a broader protective structure.<\/p><p data-start=\"2905\" data-end=\"2954\">The <em data-start=\"2909\" data-end=\"2913\">ki<\/em> ensured the stability of the enterprise.<\/p><p data-start=\"2956\" data-end=\"2990\">The House preserved its 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All rights reserved<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IWAMOTO ARCHIVAL PROCESS GROUP ARCHIVE REFERENCE HR-1877-0088 COLLECTION House Records CREATOR Iwamoto Jir\u014d DATE Meiji 10 (1877) ACCESS Reference for The Street had no Name HOUSE RECORDS On the ki Supporting Other Houses Meiji 10 (1877) The country moves quickly now. New machines arrive from abroad. New offices are formed. 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