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{{nihongo|'''Arinobu Fukuhara'''|福原有信|Fukuhara Arinobu}}, 1848–1924, was the head of Apothecary Shiseidō (which in 1927 would be incorporated as [[Shiseido|Shiseidō]]) and {{nihongo|Toku Fukuhara|福原 とく|Fukuhara Toku}}. In addition, this businessman's name is known internationally because of the [[Arinobu Fukuhara House]] at [[Hakone]], which [[Frank Lloyd Wright]] designed in 1918 as a Prairie-style vacation villa for the extended Fukuhara family.<ref>Wright in Japan: [http://www.wrightinjapan.org/eng_waaj/e_buildings/dsgn08fukuhara_e.html Arinobu Fukuhara House]</ref>
{{infobox person
| image = Fukuhara arinobu.jpg
| name = Arinobu Fukuhara
| birth_name = Fukuhara Arinobu
| birth_place = Awa, Chiba-Ken, Japan
| birth_date = {{birth date|1848|05|10}}
| death_place =
| death_date = {{death date and age|1924|03|30|1848|05|10}}
| occupation = Business tycoon, pharmacist, cosmetician
| known_for = {{bulleted|Founder of [[Shiseido|Shiseido Company Ltd.]], as Apothecary Shiseido|Chief Pharmacist of [[Imperial Japanese Navy]]|Arinobu Fukuhara House}}
| family = [[Roso Fukuhara|Fukuhara Nbuyushi]] (son), [[Shinzo Fukuhara]] (son), [[Yoshiharu Fukuhara]] (grandson), [[Hideo Mōri]] (great grandson)
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{{nihongo|'''Arinobu Fukuhara'''|福原 有信|Fukuhara Arinobu|May 10, 1848 – March 30, 1924}} was a Japanese business tycoon and pharmacist and cosmetician, who was the head of Apothecary Shiseidō (which in 1927 would be incorporated as [[Shiseido|Shiseidō Company, Ltd.]]) and {{nihongo|Toku Fukuhara|福原 とく|Fukuhara Toku}}.

Arinobu Fukuhara, , is known internationally because of the Arinobu Fukuhara House at [[Hakone]], which [[Frank Lloyd Wright]] designed in 1918 as a Prairie-style vacation villa for the extended Fukuhara family.<ref>Wright in Japan: [http://www.wrightinjapan.org/eng_waaj/e_buildings/dsgn08fukuhara_e.html Arinobu Fukuhara House]</ref>


Born 1848 in Awa, Chiba-ken, he rose in due course to become Chief Pharmacist of the Japanese Navy. In retirement, he embarked on a second career which would bring fame and fortune. He was also president of the [[Aikoko Insurance Company]].<ref>Takenobu Yoshitarō and Yoshitaro Takenobu. (1905). [http://books.google.com/books?id=HblKAAAAMAAJ&q=arinobu+Fukuhara&dq=arinobu+Fukuhara&lr=&pgis=1 ''The Japan Year Book,'' p. 59.] Tokyo: Japan Yearbook Office.</ref>
Born in Awa, Chiba-ken, he rose in due course to become Chief Pharmacist of the [[Imperial Japanese Navy]]. In retirement, he embarked on a second career which would bring fame and fortune. He was also president of the [[Aikoko Insurance Company]].<ref>Takenobu Yoshitarō and Yoshitaro Takenobu. (1905). [https://books.google.com/books?id=HblKAAAAMAAJ&q=arinobu+Fukuhara ''The Japan Year Book,'' p. 59.] Tokyo: Japan Yearbook Office.</ref>


== Family patriarch ==
== Family patriarch ==
Arinobu was the father of photographers {{nihongo|[[Rosō Fukuhara]]|福原路草|Fukuhara Rosō|1892-1946}}, {{nihongo|[[Shinzō Fukuhara]]|福原信三|Fukuhara Shinzō|1883-1948}} and {{nihongo|[[Nobuyushi Fukuhara]]|福原信義|Fukuhara Nobuyushi|1897-1958}}, who would gain fame as {{nihongo|[[Tōru Namiki]]|並木 透|Namiki Tōru}}.<ref>Tokyo Art Beat: [http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2005/DFFB.en "Masters of Light - Photographic Works of Shinzo, Nobutatsu and Nobuyoshi Fukuhara"]</ref> His sons became quintessential ''mobo'', or "modern boys" —- the sobriquet coined to describe the young, sophisticated, up-to-date young men who frequented the fashionable Ginza district in the late 1920s<ref>Kramer, Eric Mark. (2003). [http://books.google.com/books?id=x9-yOGSyKrYC&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&dq=Arinobu+Fukuhara+&source=web&ots=1pVazJRDvK&sig=T5rD73aesjNTzgRvSFC7JjijjgE&hl=en#PPA60,M1 ''The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the "Model Minority,'' p. 60.]</ref> -— and they shared a fascination and persistent attraction to photography as an art form. The Fukuharas helped to bring photography into the mainstream of Japanese modernism.<ref>[http://www.nyu.edu/greyart/exhibits/shiseido/history.htm ''mobo'' (modern boys) sobriquet]</ref> The two brothers were founding organizers of the {{nihongo|[[Japan Photographic Society (1924–)|Japan Photographic Society]]|日本写真会<ref>Alternate ''kanji'', in the orthography of the time of its foundation: 日本寫眞會.</ref>|Nihon Shashinkai}} in 1924; and Shinzō was its first president.<ref>Colberg blog: [http://www.jmcolberg.com/weblog/2003/05/ Rosō & Shinzō Fukuhara]</ref> The organization was a major pre-war influence on Japanese photography and still exists today despite a temporary dissolution during the years of the Pacific War.<ref>PhotoGuide Japan: [http://photojpn.org/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=35 Fukuhara Shinzo]</ref>
Arinobu was the father of photographers {{nihongo|[[Rosō Fukuhara]]|福原 路草|Fukuhara Rosō|1892–1946}}, {{nihongo|[[Shinzō Fukuhara]]|福原 信三|Fukuhara Shinzō|1883–1948}} and {{nihongo|[[Nobuyushi Fukuhara]]|福原 信義|Fukuhara Nobuyushi|1897–1958}}, who would gain fame as {{nihongo|[[Tōru Namiki]]|並木 透|Namiki Tōru}}.<ref>Tokyo Art Beat: [http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2005/DFFB.en "Masters of Light Photographic Works of Shinzo, Nobutatsu and Nobuyoshi Fukuhara"]</ref> His sons became quintessential ''mobo'', or "modern boys"—the sobriquet coined to describe the young, sophisticated, up-to-date young men who frequented the fashionable Ginza district in the late 1920s<ref>Kramer, Eric Mark. (2003). [https://books.google.com/books?id=x9-yOGSyKrYC&dq=Arinobu+Fukuhara+&pg=PA60 ''The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the "Model Minority,'' p. 60.]</ref>—and they shared a fascination and persistent attraction to photography as an art form. The Fukuharas helped to bring photography into the mainstream of Japanese modernism.<ref>[http://www.nyu.edu/greyart/exhibits/shiseido/history.htm ''mobo'' (modern boys) sobriquet]</ref> The two brothers were founding organizers of the {{nihongo|[[Japan Photographic Society (1924–)|Japan Photographic Society]]|日本写真会<ref>Alternate ''kanji'', in the orthography of the time of its foundation: 日本寫眞會.</ref>|Nihon Shashinkai}} in 1924; and Shinzō was its first president.<ref>Colberg blog: [http://www.jmcolberg.com/weblog/2003/05/ Rosō & Shinzō Fukuhara]</ref> The organization was a major pre-war influence on Japanese photography and still exists today despite a temporary dissolution during the years of the Pacific War.<ref>PhotoGuide Japan: [http://photojpn.org/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=35 Fukuhara Shinzo] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061001133243/http://photojpn.org/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=35 |date=October 1, 2006 }}</ref>


Grandson {{nihongo|[[Yoshiharu Fukuhara]]|福原義春|Fukuhara Yoshiharu|1931–}} continues this family tradition of fostering the development of Japanese photography. He has been Director of the [[Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography]] since his appointment by Tokyo Governor [[Shintaro Ishihara]] in 2000.<ref>PhotoGuide Japan: [http://photojpn.org/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=36 Fukuhara Yoshiharu]</ref>
His grandson, olympic alpine skier, {{nihongo|[[Yoshiharu Fukuhara]]|福原義春|Fukuhara Yoshiharu|1931–}} continues this family tradition of fostering the development of Japanese photography. He has been director of the [[Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography]] since his appointment by Tokyo Governor [[Shintarō Ishihara]] in 2000.<ref>PhotoGuide Japan: [http://photojpn.org/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=36 Fukuhara Yoshiharu] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061001133449/http://photojpn.org/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=36 |date=October 1, 2006 }}</ref>


== Shiseido ==
== Shiseido ==
:"Beauty is universal, thus the products which serve beauty should also be universal."
{{quote|Beauty is universal, thus the products which serve beauty should also be universal.|Yushin Fukuhara, company founder}}
::-Yushin Fukuhara, company founder


As Shiseido has grown to become an international cosmetics giant, the company has managed to avoid some of the pitfalls and problems which have attended generational transitions in other successful family businesses.<ref>Kenyon
As Shiseido has grown to become an international cosmetics giant, the company has managed to avoid some of the pitfalls and problems which have attended generational transitions in other successful family businesses.<ref>Kenyon
-Rouvinez, Denise. (2002). [http://books.google.com/books?id=AbfTcruXZnAC&pg=PA87&lpg=PA87&dq=arinobu+fukuhara&source=web&ots=RjONsarzz5&sig=e5D8PYxnV07PQWPbzH1RHYBZo4Y&hl=en#PPA89,M1 "Sharing Wisdom, Building Values: Letters from Family Business Owners to their Successors,'' p. 89.]</ref> For example, Arinobu's grandson, Yoshiharu Fukuhara, joined Shiseido immediately after receiving his B.A. in economics from Keio University, Tokyo, in 1953. He was appointed President & CEO of Shiseido in 1987, then Chairman of the Board in 1997 and Honorary Chairman in 2001.<ref>[http://ocw.dmc.keio.ac.jp/Alumni_essay_1.html Keio alumni essay]</ref>
-Rouvinez, Denise. (2002). [https://books.google.com/books?id=AbfTcruXZnAC&dq=arinobu+fukuhara&pg=PA89 "Sharing Wisdom, Building Values: Letters from Family Business Owners to their Successors,'' p. 89.]</ref> For example, Arinobu's grandson, Yoshiharu Fukuhara, joined Shiseido immediately after receiving his B.A. in economics from Keio University, Tokyo, in 1953. He was appointed president and CEO of Shiseido in 1987, then chairman of the board in 1997 and honorary chairman in 2001.<ref>[http://ocw.dmc.keio.ac.jp/Alumni_essay_1.html Keio alumni essay]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>


Three Fukuhara leaders in the Shiseido hierarchy were:
Three Fukuhara leaders in the Shiseido hierarchy were:
* 1st President: Fukuhara, Shinzo—son of company founder
* 1st president: Fukuhara, Shinzo—son of company founder
* 2nd President: Fukuhara, Nobuyoshi—younger brother of company's 1st president
* 2nd president: Fukuhara, Nobuyoshi—younger brother of company's 1st president
* 3rd President: Fukuhana, Yoshibaru—son of company's 2nd president
* 3rd president: Fukuhana, Yoshibaru—son of company's 2nd president


== Japan Pharmaceutical Association ==
== Japan Pharmaceutical Association ==
Arinobu served as the third president of the {{nihongo|[[Japan Pharmaceutical Association]]|日本薬剤師会|''Nippon Yakuzaishi Kai''}}, 1907-1909.<ref>Japan Pharmaceutical Assn.: [http://www.nichiyaku.or.jp/e/e3.html JPA presidents]</ref> During his administration, JPA applied for and obtained approval from the Japanese government to become what was known as a "corporate juridical person" (public corporation).<ref>Japan Pharmaceutical Assn.: [http://www.nichiyaku.or.jp/e/e2.html JPA history]</ref>
Arinobu served as the third president of the {{nihongo|[[Japan Pharmaceutical Association]]|日本薬剤師会|''Nippon Yakuzaishi Kai''}}, 1907–1909.<ref>Japan Pharmaceutical Assn.: [http://www.nichiyaku.or.jp/e/e3.html JPA presidents]</ref> During his administration, JPA applied for and obtained approval from the Japanese government to become what was known as a "corporate juridical person" (public corporation).<ref>Japan Pharmaceutical Assn.: [http://www.nichiyaku.or.jp/e/e2.html JPA history]</ref>


== Arinobu Fukuhara House ==
== Arinobu Fukuhara House ==
[[File:Arinobu Fukuhara House, full view.jpg|thumb|Full view of the Arinobu Fukuhara House]]
The commissioned house was designed and built; but the siting near a hot spring left the building vulnerable to the cataclysmic earthquake of 1923. A fissure opened up below the structure, swallowing it up and then closing around the below-ground debris.
The commissioned house was designed and built in 1920, but the site near a hot spring left the building vulnerable to the cataclysmic [[1923 Great Kantō earthquake]] which collapsed it.


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
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== References ==
== References ==
* Kramer, Eric Mark. (2003. [http://books.google.com/books?id=x9-yOGSyKrYC&dq=arinobu+fukuhara&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 ''The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the "Model Minority".''] Westport, Connecticut: [[Greenwood Publishing Group|Prager Publishers]]. 10-ISBN 0-275-97312-3; 13-ISBN 978-0-275-97312-4 (cloth)
* Kramer, Eric Mark. (2003. [https://books.google.com/books?id=x9-yOGSyKrYC&q=arinobu+fukuhara ''The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the "Model Minority".''] Westport, Connecticut: [[Greenwood Publishing Group|Prager Publishers]]. {{ISBN|978-0-275-97312-4}} (cloth)
* Storrer, William Allin. ''The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion''. University Of Chicago Press, 2006, {{ISBN|0-226-77621-2}} (S.207)


== External links ==
== External links ==
* Shisheido Net-TV: [http://www.g-platform.jp/company/shiseido/topshiseido.htm "Photo Exhibition of "Poets of Light" -Fukuhara Shinzo, Nobutatsu, Nobuyoshi" (3 mins.)]
* Shisheido Net-TV: [https://web.archive.org/web/20071030052025/http://www.g-platform.jp/company/shiseido/topshiseido.htm "Photo Exhibition of "Poets of Light" -Fukuhara Shinzo, Nobutatsu, Nobuyoshi" (3 mins.)]

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Arinobu Fukuhara
Born
Fukuhara Arinobu

(1848-05-10)May 10, 1848
Awa, Chiba-Ken, Japan
DiedMarch 30, 1924(1924-03-30) (aged 75)
Occupation(s)Business tycoon, pharmacist, cosmetician
Known for
FamilyFukuhara Nbuyushi (son), Shinzo Fukuhara (son), Yoshiharu Fukuhara (grandson), Hideo Mōri (great grandson)

Arinobu Fukuhara (福原 有信, Fukuhara Arinobu, May 10, 1848 – March 30, 1924) was a Japanese business tycoon and pharmacist and cosmetician, who was the head of Apothecary Shiseidō (which in 1927 would be incorporated as Shiseidō Company, Ltd.) and Toku Fukuhara (福原 とく, Fukuhara Toku).

Arinobu Fukuhara, , is known internationally because of the Arinobu Fukuhara House at Hakone, which Frank Lloyd Wright designed in 1918 as a Prairie-style vacation villa for the extended Fukuhara family.[1]

Born in Awa, Chiba-ken, he rose in due course to become Chief Pharmacist of the Imperial Japanese Navy. In retirement, he embarked on a second career which would bring fame and fortune. He was also president of the Aikoko Insurance Company.[2]

Family patriarch

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Arinobu was the father of photographers Rosō Fukuhara (福原 路草, Fukuhara Rosō, 1892–1946), Shinzō Fukuhara (福原 信三, Fukuhara Shinzō, 1883–1948) and Nobuyushi Fukuhara (福原 信義, Fukuhara Nobuyushi, 1897–1958), who would gain fame as Tōru Namiki (並木 透, Namiki Tōru).[3] His sons became quintessential mobo, or "modern boys"—the sobriquet coined to describe the young, sophisticated, up-to-date young men who frequented the fashionable Ginza district in the late 1920s[4]—and they shared a fascination and persistent attraction to photography as an art form. The Fukuharas helped to bring photography into the mainstream of Japanese modernism.[5] The two brothers were founding organizers of the Japan Photographic Society (日本写真会[6], Nihon Shashinkai) in 1924; and Shinzō was its first president.[7] The organization was a major pre-war influence on Japanese photography and still exists today despite a temporary dissolution during the years of the Pacific War.[8]

His grandson, olympic alpine skier, Yoshiharu Fukuhara (福原義春, Fukuhara Yoshiharu, 1931–) continues this family tradition of fostering the development of Japanese photography. He has been director of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography since his appointment by Tokyo Governor Shintarō Ishihara in 2000.[9]

Shiseido

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Beauty is universal, thus the products which serve beauty should also be universal.

— Yushin Fukuhara, company founder

As Shiseido has grown to become an international cosmetics giant, the company has managed to avoid some of the pitfalls and problems which have attended generational transitions in other successful family businesses.[10] For example, Arinobu's grandson, Yoshiharu Fukuhara, joined Shiseido immediately after receiving his B.A. in economics from Keio University, Tokyo, in 1953. He was appointed president and CEO of Shiseido in 1987, then chairman of the board in 1997 and honorary chairman in 2001.[11]

Three Fukuhara leaders in the Shiseido hierarchy were:

  • 1st president: Fukuhara, Shinzo—son of company founder
  • 2nd president: Fukuhara, Nobuyoshi—younger brother of company's 1st president
  • 3rd president: Fukuhana, Yoshibaru—son of company's 2nd president

Japan Pharmaceutical Association

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Arinobu served as the third president of the Japan Pharmaceutical Association (日本薬剤師会, Nippon Yakuzaishi Kai), 1907–1909.[12] During his administration, JPA applied for and obtained approval from the Japanese government to become what was known as a "corporate juridical person" (public corporation).[13]

Arinobu Fukuhara House

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Full view of the Arinobu Fukuhara House

The commissioned house was designed and built in 1920, but the site near a hot spring left the building vulnerable to the cataclysmic 1923 Great Kantō earthquake which collapsed it.

Notes

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  1. ^ Wright in Japan: Arinobu Fukuhara House
  2. ^ Takenobu Yoshitarō and Yoshitaro Takenobu. (1905). The Japan Year Book, p. 59. Tokyo: Japan Yearbook Office.
  3. ^ Tokyo Art Beat: "Masters of Light – Photographic Works of Shinzo, Nobutatsu and Nobuyoshi Fukuhara"
  4. ^ Kramer, Eric Mark. (2003). The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the "Model Minority, p. 60.
  5. ^ mobo (modern boys) sobriquet
  6. ^ Alternate kanji, in the orthography of the time of its foundation: 日本寫眞會.
  7. ^ Colberg blog: Rosō & Shinzō Fukuhara
  8. ^ PhotoGuide Japan: Fukuhara Shinzo Archived October 1, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ PhotoGuide Japan: Fukuhara Yoshiharu Archived October 1, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ Kenyon -Rouvinez, Denise. (2002). "Sharing Wisdom, Building Values: Letters from Family Business Owners to their Successors, p. 89.
  11. ^ Keio alumni essay[permanent dead link]
  12. ^ Japan Pharmaceutical Assn.: JPA presidents
  13. ^ Japan Pharmaceutical Assn.: JPA history

References

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  • Kramer, Eric Mark. (2003. The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the "Model Minority". Westport, Connecticut: Prager Publishers. ISBN 978-0-275-97312-4 (cloth)
  • Storrer, William Allin. The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion. University Of Chicago Press, 2006, ISBN 0-226-77621-2 (S.207)
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