Tokushichi I and his wife TakiBy this time, Tokushichi I was married. He had not needed to look far afield for a wife, for she had been a clerk in the previous business. After six years of marriage, in 1878, they were blessed with their first son, Shinnosuke. The next year, Tokushichi I became a broker in the newly established Osaka Securities Exchange. Like most fathers, Tokushichi was determined to give his son a better education than he had received, and the education reforms carried out by the Meiji government made it possible.
