Background
Zenzo Takahashi was born in Fukuoka, Japan.
善三 高橋
Zenzo Takahashi was born in Fukuoka, Japan.
Zenzo Takahashi studied the cultivation of wax tree in Satsuma (Kagoshima Prefecture), Higo (Kumamoto Prefecture) and other provinces, and introduced its cultivation to his village.
His district was devastated by a famine (1732), but his village was saved due to an abundant crop of wax tree fruit.