Mitsui Hachirōemon
When the first son of Kita branch be too young to inherit the position from his father, one of his uncles or male cousins would be selected to fill in for a limited period of time, but they did not count him as a Hachirōemon. The extended family decided to expel who had consumed family fortune by indulging in antiquity as hobby, thus Takayoshi's younger brother Takahisa was acted as Hachirōemon until Takakiyo, his nephew, was old enough. Mitsui people who inherited the name Hachirōemon the financer: 1st - Takahira. was the first of the Mitsui head family , or the Kita branch. As the eldest son of Mitsui Takatoshi and the original Kita branch, Takahira's younger brothers and their family would support Kita branch by having their sons adopted to. Mitsui family business was sustained as cousins and uncles worked as an interim head of the company, and both Takakata and Takahisa were not called Mitsui Hachirōemon. 2nd - Takatomi. , the second son of Takatoshi, was the second head of the Mitsui family. His descendants headed the Isarago branch. 3rd - Takafusa. was the third head of the Mitsui family. He was the son of Takahira. Takakata. was the  son of Takaharu, the third son of Takatoshi and the first head of the Shinmachi branch. Although not counted as such, when Takafusa retired as the third head in 1734, his successor Takayoshi was still young, so Takakata acted as Hachirōemon. 4th - Takayoshi. was the fourth head of the Mitsui family. His childhood name was . In 1733, he was appointed , and inherited the Kita branch while his father's Takafusa became a Buddhist monk the following year. Renamed himself in 1736, succeeded into the Kyoto money order business under the title of in 1738, and in 1741, following the death  of his uncle Takakata, Takayoshi succeeded as Hachirōemon. However, as Takayoshi incurred a large amount of debt from by spending too much on personal art collection as well as making huge donations to Saikyōji, his title of Hachirōemon was passed to Takafusa in 1747 through the intentions of his younger brother Takahisa, who was the head of the Shinmachi representing the interest of the extended Mitsuis at the time. In 1750, Takayoshi handed over the Kita branch to his second son Takakiyo, but the squandering was not settled, so in August 1756, Mitsuis negotiated with Takayoshi and made an agreement  that they paid him 1200 "kan" retirement pension, and Takayoshi agreed to withdraw from Mitui's financial business. Nonetheless, however, it was discovered that Takayoshi secretly borrowed money from Ōmotokata, and in the same year on 13 November, his successor, Takakiyo (then Shinpachi), decided to disown him offially: an application form was filed to the city financial officials on the 27th of the same month, in which Takakiyo signed the consent of 87 businessmen and employees that his uncle Takahisa would acted as Hachirōemon. Takahisa. , the son of Takafusa, succeeded as the third head of the Shinmachi branch as the  adopted son of Takakata. Although not counted as such, when his older brother, the fourth head, had his title as Hachirōemon revoked in 1747, Takahisa acted as Hachirōemon. 5th - Takakiyo. was the fifth head of the Mitsui family. He was the second son of Takayoshi. 6th - Takasuke. was the sixth head of the Mitsui family. He was the eldest son of Takakiyo. 7th - Takanari. was the seventh head of the Mitsui family. He was the eldest son of Takasuke. 8th - Takayoshi. was a Japanese businessman during the Bakumatsu and the early Meiji period. He was the eighth head of the  Mitsui family. During the Bakumatsu reformation, Takayoshi was able to move between the Tokugawa shogunate and the Imperial court, and helped establish the foundation of the Mitsui "zaibatsu". In 1859, he served as a money purveyor for the places of the "Gaikoku bugyō", and after the Meiji Restoration, he worked on several aspects of the banking administration of the government. He established the and the Mitsui Bank. He was also responsible for the foundation of Mitsui & Co. 9th - Takaaki. was the ninth head of the Mitsui family. 10th - Takamine. was the tenth head of the Mitsui family. Known as a  hobbyist, he built a mansion in Tokyo, the , in 1906. In the area of approximately 13,500 "tsubo" (44,631 m), the Noh stage, the garden, and the tennis court among others were established, and "Jo-an", which would later be a National Treasure, was relocated there. In 1908 Mitsui Takamine allied with a visiting U.S. business delegation to assist in resolving The Panic of 1907 and the unstable Stock Market in the United States. In 1922, Takamine invited the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII, at the request of the Imperial Household Agency, and hosted a reception of the crown  prince with a dinner party, a Noh viewing, etc. In 1933, as Takamine retired, he handed down the mansion at Imaichō to the eleventh head, Takakimi, but the mansion was destroyed by fire in the bombing of Tokyo in 1945. Takakimi. Baron was the eleventh head of the Mitsui family. After losing control of Mitsui companies after the dissolution of the "zaibatsu" following World War II, he ran Wakabakai Kindergarten, a kindergarten that was created by his father Takamine during his lifetime. Also, Takakimi's residence, the (built in 1952), was relocated from Nishi-Azabu, Minato, Tokyo to the Edo -Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum in Koganei, Tokyo in 1996, and is now open to the public. His wife was the daughter of Matsudaira Yasukata, the 18th head of the Echizen-Matsudaira clan who ruled the Fukui Domain. He was a car enthusiast; before World War II, he owned more than 10 luxury cars made by European companies such as Bentley, Hispano-Suiza, Bugatti and Lancia. Even into the 1990s, he drove his own Bentley T models. Hisanori. is the twelfth and current head of the Mitsui family. He works as an architect.