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Ichizō Kobayashi
[[File:Photograph of Ichizō Kobayashi.jpg|thumb|350x350px|Photograph of Ichizō Kobayashi  (courtesy of Mukōyama Tateo).]]
'''Ichizō Kobayashi''' (小林 一三, ''Kobayashi Ichizō'', January 3, 1873; [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirasaki,_Yamanashi Nirasaki, Yamanashi] – January 25, 1957; [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikeda,_Osaka Ikeda, Osaka]), is Japanese industrialist. He is best known as the founder of [[Hankou railway station|Hankyu Railway]], the [[Takaraz(contracted; show full)

What he loved to work on most of all was Takarazuka, a kind of theater that ordinary people could easily attend. There were expensive seats, but there were plenty of cheap seats, too—“like outfield seats in baseball or third-tier seats in sumō,” Mukōyama notes. “People could go all year round. You don’t have to be close to the action to simply enjoy a little culture. Isn’t that what finding culture in our daily lives is all about?”

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