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Hisashige Tanaka (田中 久重, October 16, 1799 – November 7, 1881) was a Japanese businessman, inventor, mechanical engineer, and rangaku scholar who was prominent during the Bakumatsu and early Meiji period in Japan. In 1875, he founded what became the Toshiba Corporation.
Jul 29, 2013 · Tanaka Hisashige is one of Japan’s most prolific inventors. Creating everything from mechanical dolls to weapons of destruction, this guy did it all. He even started the company that later became known as Toshiba.
Toshiba's founder, Hisashige Tanaka, was born the eldest son of a tortoiseshell craftsman in 1799. At the age of twenty-one, he performed at a local shrine festival with clockwork dolls he constructed himself.
Sep 23, 2021 · Tanaka Hisashige was the co-founder of the Japanese tech giant that is now known as Toshiba Corporation. In Japan, he has the same reputation that famous inventor Thomas Edison has in...
Learn about Hisashige Tanaka, the father of Japanese mechanical engineering and the inventor of many devices, in this interactive doodle.
Hisashige Tanaka was born as the eldest son of a tortoiseshell craftsman. At the age of nine he astonished his family and others by fashioning an "inkstone case with a secret lock" equipped with Karakuri mechanical figures.
Tanaka Hisashige, originally named Tanaka Giemon, was born in 1799 as the eldest son of a tortoiseshell craftsman. Early in his childhood, he showed mechanical ingenuity in making devices, some of which were useful to his neighbours. At the age of eighteen, his father passed away.
Tanaka Hisashige (1799-1881) was from Kurume in Kyushu. Fascinated by mechanical contrivances at a time when machines and the techniques for building them were rare novelties, he invented a host of mechanized products, from mechanical dolls to perpetual clocks, that earned him the nickname “Giemon the mechanical whiz.”
This display introduces a dramatic interpretation of the lives of Hisashige TANAKA and Ichisuke FUJIOKA, the founders of Toshiba, and explains the DNA of Toshiba.
Hisashige TANAKA (October 16, 1799 - January 11, 1881) was an inventor nicknamed 'Thomas EDISON of the East' and "Karakuri (gimmick) Giemon," who lived from the Edo Period through the Meiji Period. He was born in Kurume, Chikugo Province (present-day Kurume City, Fukuoka Prefecture).
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