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”的日本客户是后藤象二郎(Goto Shojiro)与板垣退助(Itagaki Taisuke)。后藤象二郎曾是一位日本武士,作为自由民权运动(People’s Rights Movement)的领导人,1881年与板垣退助一起创建了日本自由党(Jiyuto)。他随后出任第二次伊藤博文(Ito Hirobumi)内阁农商务大臣,而后又因涉及金融丑闻而被迫辞去大臣一职,1897年,他在自己的神奈川(Kanagawa)避暑地离世。