Oura Kei (大浦 慶, Ōura Kei, 1828–1884) was a Japanese businesswoman. She managed a successful tea-import business with the help of her international foreign contacts. She acted as a patron of, among others, Sakamoto Ryoma.

The original site of the spacious home of Oura Kei, the Nagasaki woman responsible for expanding Japan's foreign tea trade, has been usurped by a white five-story building filled with stores selling -- amid the cacophony of three different pop tunes -- …

2023年2月17日 · Ōura Kei spent most of her adult life navigating social networks and official systems that were shaped by opposing and unequal power dynamics. During the Toyama Incident, as a Japanese merchant pitted against treaty-protected foreign merchants and domestic elite, she was at a disadvantage on multiple fronts.

years later, a British merchant, William Olt, placed a huge order to Kei. This marked the beginning of the green tea trade from Japan. Green tea in those da s was made by an iron pot-roasting method, commonly known as Kama-iri-cha. Kei went allover Kyushu to respond to the

2024年4月24日 · Ms. Kei Oura is wealthy merchant who pioneered the export trade of Japanese tea and raw silk, as well as Steel Machinery Business. Despite being involved in a fraud incident and incurring huge debts, she made full use of his strong network of businessmen and politicians in Kyushu, leased the Yokohama Steel Works, manufactured machinery, bought ...

Merchant in the tea trade. Pioneer of Japanese tea exports. In 1853, she approached Carl Julius Textor, a German resident in Dejima, about finding a market for Ureshino tea. She received an order from England three years later and exported Japanese tea.

2020年10月1日 · The first person to start exporting Japanese tea was a woman called Kei Oura, who was born in Aburaya in Nagasaki City. Kei Oura was a very active woman, and in 1848, it is said that she wanted to see the world outside of Japan, so she stowed away in a tea box and went to Shanghai. (It is said that she also went to India.)

Abstract Oura Kei (1828-1884), known as a businesswoman who pioneered the export of Japanese tea, was said to be in decline in her later years. However in the last decade, it has become clear that she worked with a group of talented fellows to develop various business activities in Tokyo metropolitan area after leaving her hometown Nagasaki ...

大浦氏慶女墓表について ： Epitaph of Kei Oura (新長崎学研究センター紀要 ： 第3号 抜刷)

2024年8月27日 · 大浦 慶 Kei Oura 長崎県出身 1828-1884 経営者 幕末から明治期初期に活躍した女性商人 油商店の娘として生まれたが、商店が大火事に遭い経営が傾く そこで、地元の名産であった嬉野茶に目をつけ 出島で茶の輸出に成功した