The Ebara Hatakeyama Memorial Cultural Foundation traces its origins to the Hatakeyama Cultural Foundation, established in 1960 by Issei Hatakeyama, the founder of Ebara Corporation. Since its beginning, we have dedicated ourselves to fostering the research, dissemination, and advancement of science and technology through grant programs. Moreover, through our scholarship initiatives, we have contributed to the development of education, Science, the prosperity of industry, and enrichment of our culture.
In 2011, the public interest of our endeavors was formally recognized, earning us certification as a Public Interest Incorporated Foundation by the Prime Minister of Japan. In 2017, we merged with the Hatakeyama Memorial Museum, also founded by Issei Hatakeyama to form the Ebara Hatakeyama Memorial Cultural Foundation. Today, we pursue operating our museum alongside grant-making initiatives.
Our grant programs offer research fundings, scholarship awards, and donations to public interest organizations, all imbued with the indomitable spirit of our founder, Issei Hatakeyama. In his youth, amidst economic hardship, he was sustained by the generosity of individuals and organizations, for which he remained eternally grateful. Concurrently, as he expanded his enterprise, he harbored a steadfast resolve to transform Japan’s societal tendency to undervalue engineers and inventors. These formative experiences have culminated in his commitment to supporting aspiring scholars, providing research grants and accolades to engineers, researchers, and inventors, and extending aid to the organizations that once supported him. Guided by our founder’s fervent vision, we dedicate ourselves to fostering “human development” that advances academic excellence and industrial vitality.
In operating our museum, we return to the spirit of Issei Hatakeyama, renowned as “the last sukisha”, the last connoisseur of refined sensibilities and with a passion for the arts in the modern era who cherished Japan’s fading traditions and culture with profound reverence and devotion. Beyond merely collecting and preserving exceptional antiquities, he brought these treasures to life through tea ceremonies and shared their splendor with society through his museum, thereby redefining their cultural and artistic significance. He tirelessly disseminated these achievements on a global stage. Cherishing the spirit of Issei Hatakeyama, we safeguard the culture of the tea ceremony while striving to forge its renewed value. Simultaneously, we collaborate with contemporary artists across diverse disciplines to create new expressions of culture and beauty, disseminating them widely to audiences both domestic and international.
We earnestly seek your continued understanding and support as we pursue this mission.
Outline of the Ebara Hatakeyama Memorial Foundation
| Name | THE EBARA HATAKEYAMA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION (a public interest incorporated foundation) |
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| Location | 11-1, Haneda Asahi-cho, Ohta-ku, Tokyo |
| Date of establishment | June 6, 1960 (became a public interest incorporated foundation on August 1, 2011) |
| Administrative agency | Cabinet Office, the Government of Japan |
| Purposes | The purposes of the Foundation are to promote and support the research of academics, science and technology, to support the dissemination and promotion of academics, science and technology, cultures, arts, Sado (Tea ceremony) and sports, and to support scholarship programs. Through these activities, the Foundation aims to promote industrial prosperity and broad progress in cultures, arts and sports by contributing to the development of education, academics, and science and technology. |
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| Basic assets | A total of approximately one million shares of EBARA CORPORATION. Six thousand and five hundred shares of Mukoyama Corporation. Land at Minato-ku Shiroganedai, Tokyo: approximately 4.1 and 1.4 thousand square meters. Building of the Museum. Collections of fine arts and crafts. Approximately 1.3 thousand sets. |
| Founder | Issey Hatakeyama (1881-1971) Issey Hatakeyama was born as a descendant of Hatakeyama, the head of Noto province (currently Noto Peninsula, Ishikawa Prefecture). After graduating from faculty of Engineering at Imperial University of Tokyo (currently the University of Tokyo), he engaged in development of pumps as an engineer and established EBARA CORPORATION, which made him a prominent figure in the business world. Besides the business, he established the Foundation in 1960 aiming for research, dissemination and promotion of science and technology and for development of education and academics. In addition, he called himself "Sokuo" and enjoyed Noh plays and tea ceremony and collected works of art for a long time. Such artworks include "Ringokazu" and "Enjibanshozu", national treasures (paintings), tea ceremony utensils of Fumai Matsudaira, a daimyo (Japanese feudal load) tea ceremony master and hereditary Noh costumes of the Maeda clan of the Kaga domain. Hatakeyama Sokuo had sometimes shown his collection of artworks mainly at tea ceremony parties; however, in the view of their cultural value, he established Hatakeyama Memorial Museum of Fine Art in 1964 to make them available for public viewing and research and to permanently preserve them. |
Major activities continued since the establishment of the Foundation
1. Supporting dissemination and promotion of academics, and science and technology and public and private organizations and facilities engaged in those areas
Providing grants for the "JSME Hatakeyama Award" of The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME)
The JSME has been presenting the "JSME Hatakeyama award" as a nonprofit activity funded by grants from the Foundation since 1960. Every year, mechanical engineering departments and related departments of public and private colleges, universities, and junior colleges in Japan nominate graduates who have superior character and achieved academic excellence (one person from each department; about 350 students in total). The award makes an honorable recognition of their efforts by giving them a diploma and extra prize.
Providing grants for "Hatakeyama Issei Award" of Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation (JIII)
JIII has been presenting the "Hatakeyama Issei Award" as a nonprofit activity funded by grants from the Foundation since 1967. Grants from the EBARA CORPORATION were also added in 1981. The National Commendation for Invention organized by JIII every year commends persons who have produced the most excellent invention by giving a symbolic award supported by an imperial donation from the royal family. This activity provides a diploma and financial incentives for their inventions as the "Hatakeyama Issei Award" to honorably recognize their achievements.
2. Supporting public and private organizations, groups and individuals engaging in academic and science and technological research
Providing grants for the "Hatakeyama Issei Research Grant" of Turbomachinery Society of Japan (TSJ)
TSJ has been presenting the "Hatakeyama Issei Research Grant" funded by grants from the Foundation every year since 1990. This activity provides a diploma and grant to a research activity chosen from the public every year. The scope is research activities related to fluid machinery or fluid engineering in which the researcher is 40 years old or older and works for a public or private college, university, junior college, or research institute in Japan or an extremely outstanding education activity for the following generations.
Providing grants in accordance with the subsidy program of the Ebara Hatakeyama Memorial Foundation
Every year since 1960, the Foundation has been providing grants to researchers who belong to Japanese universities and research institutes and individuals or groups who are deemed to have academic knowledge in the field for their research. Currently, the Foundation is providing a total approximately ten grants in principle to those who are selected from the public from three technology fields: (1) the turbomachinery and fluid machinery, (2) the environment, energy and biomass and (3) the semiconductor manufacturing equipment and processes.
3. Supporting students through scholarship associations and schools
Providing grants for the "Hatakeyama Scholarship" and "Hatakeyama Scholarship Award (Ikuei sho)" of Kaetsunou Ikueisha ("KI")
KI has been granting the "Hatakeyama Scholarship" as a nonprofit activity since 1960 funded by grants from the Foundation. This activity provides scholarships to students (a total of two students, in principle) who are from Ishikawa or Toyama prefectures and a science major in a college or university in the Tokyo metropolitan area. In addition, we established the "Hatakeyama Scholarship Award (Ikusei sho)" as a nonprofit activity in 2006. Two graduates who have made excellent achievements in academic, sports or social action programs are selected every year among those who stayed in the "Student Dormitory 'Meirin Gakkan'" and attended science university or college. This activity honors such graduates by giving them a diploma and extra prize.
Providing grants for the "Hatakeyama Scholarship Fund" of Ishikawa Prefecture
Ishikawa Prefecture has been administering the "Hatakeyama Scholarship Fund" as a scholarship activity funded by grants of the Foundation since 1960. This activity provides scholarships to about 25 high school students every year including both new applicants and students who are already on the scholarship. Eligible students must be living in Ishikawa Prefecture, be academically excellent and have difficulties in paying tuition fees.
Board members
| President | Toichi MAEDA |
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| Executive Director |
Akinori MATSUI Kazuhiko SHIKIMACHI Hiroshi NAKAMURA |
Directors |
Natsunosuke YAGO Naoko HATAKEYAMA Kazuhiro YANAGIDA Norio KIMURA Shu TAKAGI Tadashi URATA |
| Auditors | Tadashi URABE Takanobu MURAKAMI Katsuhiko HARA |
Councilors
- Yoshie MAITANI
- Manabu TSUJIMURA
- Masaru SHIBUYA
- Keiko NAKAMACHI
- Kozo NAKAO
- Atsuro SUZUKI
- Akira ITO