
Tensho 18 years established long-established fan"ibasen" with a deep history」
Ibasen was founded by kanzaemon ibaya, a Hamamatsu merchant who went to Edo with Ieyasu Tokugawa. at the time of its establishment, it was located in Nihonbashi, Edo, where the shogunate government worked mainly on washi (Japanese paper), paper products, and bamboo products.
In the late Edo period, he began to work on Uchiwa, and became the publisher of popular painters such as the first generation Utagawa Toyokuni, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Utagawa Hiroshige, and sold ukiyo・e on Uchiwa and gained popularity.