1917～1945

Under the wartime with China, the price, etc. control order is issued in October 1939. We show a handwritten draft of the agreement price list with the implementation date of October 23, 1940. Osaka Prefecture Notification No. 1714 Price, etc. Control Ordinance Article 3, Paragraph 1 of the Orde

Y.Inaba started machine production of flat toothpick with white birch at Kawachinagano, but in Mie prefecture he continued t to manufacture Utsugi toothpicks. In 1927, he exhibited products at the domestic exhibition of the Yokkaichi city 30 year anniversary, and won first prize at round toothpi

Commemorative photo at the factory · Female workers wearing kimonos (1924) Toyo toothpick company. Toyo toothpick Co., Ltd. exhibited round toothpicks to the industrial materials exhibition organized by the Mie prefecture commodity display station. However, depending on the reason and th

In 1919 the managing director of Kanseisha, Y. Inaba asked the manufacturers nationwide in hopes of industry development and cooperation It was. The six major companies that agreed to that spirit formed round toothpick manufacturing association. In addition, Kawachinagano has not joined this

No.2 Yoshitaro Inaba (born in 1884), the founder of Koeisha, married Hatsu Nakatani at the age of 23 and succeeded to the rice shop. At that time, the price of rice was profitable with a quota system. He was brought a story of a candidate for city councilor from a friend when he was a little dow

　 According to the history of Sekicyo, the toothpick manufacturing affiliated company (20 workers, annual production of 20,000 yen), which was expected to have a future in the "depression in Sekicyo", also resists the wave of recession Although it was not able to be closed in 1933, it is said that

After coming from Mie prefecture, we started machine production by white birch, and the toothpick which was made at the end of painful misery is a flat toothpick which is thin. The first mechanical production toothpicks were born in Japan in 1926, 40 years to lag behind the United States. At tha

　　 He thought about the situation of the toothpick manufacturing nationwide, so He devised a lot of ingenuity in the company's manufacturing, realized mass production and cost reduction one after another. He gained the attention of surroundings and gained confidence. Y.Inaba go

No.3 Spicebush toothpicks broker handed the materials to each farmer, processed it and paid it to the toothpick trader. Also, the supplier packaged and put it on the market. Similarly, a trader purchased a product of round toothpicks from a manufacturer and packaged it and put it on the market. P

　 In he middle of the Edo period, toothpicks began to be sold in the form of a street vendor that sells bunches of chisels on a simple table. It gradually began to sell at stores. In particular, the precincts of Sensoji Temple are famous and in the Bunkabunsei period (1806 ~ 1829) there were about