Chapter 231 – Signposts Toward Dark Clouds

On November 11, 1931, Shibusawa Eiichi passed away.

The wake was held on the 14th, and the funeral on the 15th. People across Japan mourned the death of a man who could be called the last elder statesman of the business world, one who had lived from the final days of the shogunate into the Showa era. Many attended the funeral, and the newspapers reported that as many as forty thousand people lined the streets to see the procession pass.

Not only that, but after his condition worsened, the newspapers had been publishing updates on his health, even including his body temperature. The entire nation knew of the great man’s final journey.

Even the Ootori family, which had little direct connection to him, sent my grandfather to attend the funeral.

To be frank, Shibusawa Eiichi was far too much of a figure of