Odaka Junchu was born in 1830 in Shimotekage Village.
His alias was Shingoro, and his real name was Junchu, and he was called Ranko.
He was a cousin of Shibusawa Eiichi, and it is well known that Eiichi studied under Junchu from his youth, learning many subjects including the Analects of Confucius.
He was well versed in the Mito school of knowledge and practice, and had a great influence on Eiichi's life.
In the Meiji era (1868-1912), Junchu became the first director of the Tomioka Silk Mill and the Sendai branch manager of the First National Bank of Japan.
The house where Junchu Odaka was born is said to have been built in the late Edo period by Junchu's great-grandfather Isogoro. At that time, it was called by the trade name "Aburaya.
It is a valuable building that retains the atmosphere of a merchant's building in this region.
In this house, Chiyo, who became Eiichi's wife, Heikuro, who was adopted by Mitachi, and Yu, the daughter of Junchu and the first apprentice worker at the Tomioka Silk Mill, were raised.
It is also said that it was on the second floor of this house that the young Junchu, Eiichi and others sympathized with the ideology of the Emperor and the expulsion of the barbarians, and conspired to take over Takasaki Castle.
The brick warehouse at the back of the main building is made of bricks stamped with "Kamishikimemae," indicating that it was built after 1888, when Japan Brick Manufacturing Co.
The building was designated as a Fukaya City Cultural Property (Historic Site) on February 10, 2010.
The above is from the pamphlet of Fukaya City.
http://www.city.fukaya.saitama.jp/ikkrwebBrowse/material/files/group/77/odakazyuncyuu.ai.4.8mb.pdf
The cache was set up in the parking lot in front of the Odaka Junchu Birthplace.
It is small in size.
There are many tourists because this place is often shown in the Taiga Drama.
Please sign with caution.
----- japanese
尾高惇忠は天保元年 (1830)、下手計村に生まれました。通称は新五郎、諱（いみな）は惇忠（じゅんちゅう）、藍香（らんこう）と号しました。
渋沢栄一の従兄弟にあたり、栄一は少年時代からこの惇忠のもとに通い、論語をはじめ多くの学問を惇忠に師事したことが知られています。
後世、“藍香ありてこそ栄一あり”と称えられた人物で、知行合一（ちこうごういつ）の水戸学に精通し、栄一の人生に大きな影響を与えました。
明治時代を迎えると、惇忠は富岡製糸場初代場長や第一国立銀行仙台支店長などを務め、幅広く活躍しました。
この尾高惇忠生家は江戸時代後期に惇忠の曽祖父磯五郎が建てたものと伝わっています。当時は「油屋」の屋号で呼ばれ、この地方の商家建
物の趣を残す貴重な建物です。この家で栄一の妻となったちよ、見立養子となった平九郎、惇忠の娘で富岡製糸場伝習工女第一号となるゆうが
育ちました。また、若き日の惇忠や栄一らがときの尊皇攘夷思想に共鳴し、高崎城乗っ取りの謀議をなしたのもこの家の二階と伝わります。
主屋裏の煉瓦倉庫には、「上敷免製」の刻印を残す煉瓦が使われており、日本煉瓦製造株式会社ができた明治二十一年 (1888) 以降の建築であるこ
とがわかります。
平成二十二年 (2010) 二月十日に深谷市指定文化財（史跡）に指定されました。
以上、深谷市のパンフレットより
http://www.city.fukaya.saitama.jp/ikkrwebBrowse/material/files/group/77/odakazyuncyuu.ai.4.8mb.pdf
キャッシュは、尾高惇忠生家の前にある駐車場に設置しました。
大きさは小さいものです。
大河ドラマでもよく出てくる場所なので観光客が多いです。
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