Core Kyoto
Season 1 • Episode 16: Shinise: Established Businesses Survive the Centuries • Watch with subtitles
Episode 16: Shinise: Established Businesses Survive the Centuries
December 5, 2013 • 28 min
The ancient capital has many shinise, or established businesses, with unbroken histories. Kyoto Prefecture classes a firm founded at least a century ago as shinise. Over generations, more than 1,100 Kyoto shinise have maintained imperial court culture and life; and provided for temples, shrines, samurai clans and the common people. Through the ups and downs, they have upheld their trade, reputations and family mottos; and kept the Kyoto entrepreneurial spirit of status and trust alive.
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