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and established a successful silk worm business. He was involved in a campaign against drinking and brothels. He was one of the supporters of
Kigenji Iguchi (see below). He married a girl named Ryō from Sendai, but she could not get used to rural life, and he moved his family to Tokyo where he
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Azumino is almost the same thing as the history of the
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