Although merchants, Jusaburo HIRANOYA (?) and Hanbei SENBEIYA ?) were raised to a samurai class when Shigetomi OHARA left Kyoto for Edo as an Imperial Envoy in May of the same year (old calendar), and they had attended to him, they had a bad reputation for accepting bribery and embezzlement. |
平野屋寿三郎(ひらのや じゅさぶろう?)・煎餅屋半兵衛(せんべいや はんべえ?)は、共に商人ながらこの年5月の勅使・大原重徳東下の際に士分となり供をしていたが、収賄や横領などを行ったため評判が悪かった。 |