IbasenDefinition of
IbasenConcept of
IbasenSince our founding in 1590, we have always been committed to "trust" and "contribution to society" through our business activities, which has been our family motto. In the middle of the Edo period, bridges along the Yahagigawa River in my hometown of Okazaki were washed away by frequent floods. Each time this happened, we merchants from Enshu and Mikawa were willing to undertake the bridge replacement work, thereby contributing to the local community. Today, the company's profits are fairly returned to employees and we contribute to society through taxation, but our approach has not changed at all. The foundation of our company is the "trust" that comes from this continuous process. We also believe that the trust we have built up over the years is linked to our ability to provide unashamedly satisfactory products to our customers, who support us in this way.
Motto
Current Representative / Ibasen's 14th generationNobuo YoshidaThe motto of Iba-Sen is "Kan-ni seisaku sincerity shakes the world", a seven-character phrase from an ancient Chinese scripture. If translated into Japanese, it can be expressed as "If you strive for sincerity every day, you can shake the whole world" or, in a more modern way, "If you continue to live faithfully day after day, you can eventually achieve great things. It is said that even in war-torn ancient China, sages taught many people that no matter how hard life was, if they lived faithfully, they could eventually achieve great deeds that would shake the whole country. Incidentally, the name of the current representative Nobuo(Nobuo) has this one character in it.
Distant seas
The story of the birth of the world city "Edo
Author:Nobuo Yoshida
From the postscript
In the year 2020, our company celebrates 430 years in business. A normal company would publish a commemorative journal on the anniversary year, describing the company's history. However, even if we wanted to publish a commemorative publication, we have no documents from 400 years ago. According to the oral tradition handed down from generation to generation, our founder moved to Edo with Tokugawa Ieyasu from Iba-mura in Enshu (present Higashi Iba-cho, Chuo-ku, Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture) and was engaged in the development of Edo at that time. (omission) Therefore, I decided to compile our company's corporate gravel as a "novel".
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