Background
Ginko Kishida was born in Mimasaka Province (Okayama Prefecture).
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Ginko Kishida was educated at Hayashijuku (a private school at Edo) and later studied English from an American named Hepburn, whom he subsequently helped to compile a Japanese-Engnsn dictionary.
Career
Ginko Kishida published a newspaper (1864) and then with the American consul, edited Moshiogusa (Yokohama News-paper). After this served for awhile on the staff of Nipposha to subsequently become an editor of Tokyo Nichinichi for whom he was war correspondent during the Japanese invasion of Formosa (1874). Later he entered business and opened a pharmacy on the Ginza and marketed Seiki-sui (a kind of medicine).
