Sumitomo Masatomo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Japanese businessman
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Place of Birth: Japan
About Sumitomo Masatomo
- Sumitomo Masatomo (Japanese: ?? ??, Hepburn: Sumitomo Masatomo, 31 December 1585 – 17 September 1652) was a Japanese copper mining businessman credited with founding the eponymous Sumitomo Group.
- Originally he was a Buddhist monk.
- During his lifetime, there were mainly two sectors of Buddhist monks in Japan.
- Masatomo belonged to one of the two which later ceased to exist.
- Reluctant to join the other group of Buddhist monks, he turned to business to make a living.
- He started his business by selling books and medicines at first in a bookshop in Kyoto circa 1615.
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