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The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

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Kanematsu Australia

Kanematsu, Fusajiro

Katayama, Shinshiro

Kitamura, Toranosuke

An Evening at 'Japan' - some of the villagers June 1886

Kanematsu flour bag label print c1935

Tenka Troupe at the National Amphitheatre poster 1913

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Kanematsu Australia

Australian office of Japanese merchant and trading business, Katematsu Corporation, that opened in Sydney in 1890 in an office at 99 Clarence Street before moving to 8 O'Connell Street in 1891. The company had been established by Fusajiro Kanematsu in Japan in 1889 in order to establish trade with Australia. It is one of the largest dealers in wool to Japan.

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Kanematsu, Fusajiro

Japanese entrepreneur who first visited Sydney in 1887. On his return to Japan he opened a trading house, Kanematsu, coming back to Sydney in 1890 with Toranosuke Kitamura to open an Australian office, and shipping the first direct consignment of wool from Australia to Japan. He visited Sydney several times, but lived in Japan.

In 1933 the company donated funds for the establishment of the Kanematsu Memorial Institute of Pathology at Sydney Hospital in memory of him and his wife Sen Katematsu, in recognition of the medical care and support given to early Japanese migrants by the Australian community. The Institute closed in the early 1980s, but the Kanematsu Fund continues to donate an annual research scholarship to the Australian Royal Pathology Association.

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Katayama, Shinshiro

Japanese pianist who visited Sydney in 1936 but who gained disfavour after he married an Australian woman at the outbreak of World War II.

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Kitamura, Toranosuke

Japanese merchant who came to Australia in 1890 with Fusajiro Kanematsu to establish and manage the Australian offices of new Kanematsu's export and import business. He and his family lived at Woodford and on Blues Point Road in North Sydney.

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An Evening at 'Japan' - some of the villagers June 1886

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

(Illustrated Sydney News, 15 June 1886 p4)

Kanematsu flour bag label print c1935

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

Tenka Troupe at the National Amphitheatre poster 1913

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Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, State Library of Tasmania

State Library of Tasmania

[AUTAS001125297671]

(J W B Murphy Collection, Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office)

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