Kosai Nikki, Paris World Expo Kenbunroku, Modern Translation / Eiichi Shibusawa / Yuzuru Sugiura

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Kodansha Gakujutsu Bunko / In 1867 (Keio 3), the Paris World Exposition was held. It was the first international exposition in which Japanese people participated. The shogunate dispatched Akitake, a younger brother of Tokugawa Yoshinobu, as a minister. Shibusawa Eiichi, who had become a shogun's retainer, accompanied the delegation. After returning to Japan, Shibusawa compiled a detailed record of his trip to Europe in six volumes with Sugimura Yuzuru (Aizo), who accompanied him as a foreign bugyo control coordinator, and published it in 1871 (1871). This record vividly describes his experiences at the Paris World Exposition, which celebrated the prosperity of France, as well as his audience with European dignitaries such as Napoleon III, Vittorio Emanuele II, the King of the Netherlands, Wi Rem III, the King of the Netherlands, Shibusawa Akitake, the industrialization of the United Kingdom in the midst of the Industrial Revolution, and his astonishment at the political and economic system. In the past, this diary has been treated as a single book by Shibusawa, but recent research has revealed that it was compiled and written from the diary of Sugimura Yuzuru, who accompanied him as a shogun's retainer during the first half of his trip and later became a bureaucrat of the Meiji Government, and also from the diary of 『 Akitake. These experiences and knowledge of former shogun's retainers were greatly utilized in the subsequent modernization. When it was published as a paperback, it included Chapter 1 to 4 of Eichi Shibusawa / Shuichiro Onuki's Autobiography 』 of Eichi Shibusawa in 『 (published by Okina Shotokukai, in 1937) edited and authored by Shuichiro Tsukama and described the circumstances of his return to Japan and the trend after his return to Japan as an original. It also included Chapter 1 to 4 of the "Autobiography of Eichi SASAKI EIICHI" (published by Okina Shotokukai, in 1962) edited and written by Shuichiro Shibusawa 』