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Former Iseya Pawn Shop
The Japanese novelist Higuchi Ichiyo is said to have used this pawn shop whenever she could not make ends meet. Today the site is registered as a cultural herit
Ichiyo Higuchi former residence trace
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This site is the former residence of Higuchi Ichiyo, an important writer of the Meiji era, whose portrait appears on today's 5000¥ banknote.
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