The first Japanese clients to appear in the Louis Vuitton archives are the politicians Goto Shojiro and Itagaki Taisuke. Shojiro, a samurai, was a leader of the Freedom and People’s Rights Movement who, alongside Taisuke, helped form the Jiyuto (Liberal party) in 1881. He would later become minister of agriculture and commerce in the second Ito Hirobumi cabinet before being implicated in a financial scandal and forced to retire. He died at his summer home in Kanagawa in 1897.
首次在路易威登(Louis Vuitton)“青史留名”的日本客戶是后藤象二郎(Goto Shojiro)與板垣退助(Itagaki Taisuke)。后藤象二郎曾是一位日本武士,作為自由民權運動(People’s Rights Movement)的領導人,1881年與板垣退助一起創建了日本自由黨(Jiyuto)。他隨后出任第二次伊藤博文(Ito Hirobumi)內閣農商務大臣,而后又因涉及金融丑聞而被迫辭去大臣一職,1897年,他在自己的神奈川(Kanagawa)避暑地離世。