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Sakichi Toyoda (豊田 佐吉, Toyoda Sakichi, March 19 (the 14th of the 2nd month in East Asian Lunar Calendar), 1867 – October 30, 1930) was a Japanese inventor and industrialist. He was born in Kosai, Shizuoka. The son of a farmer and sought-after carpenter, he started the Toyoda family companies.
Toyota Industries Corporation was founded in 1926 by Sakichi Toyoda to manufacture and sell the automatic looms which he had invented. Since then Toyota Industries has diversified and expanded the scope of its business domains to include textile machinery.
Sakichi Toyoda. Profession: Inventor and Industrialist. Nationality: Japanese. Biography: Sakichi Toyoda is known as the "King of Japanese Inventors" and the father of the Japanese industrial revolution. Toyoda’s father was a carpenter and farmer who taught him carpentry.
Although Sakichi Toyoda attained a patent for his wooden hand loom, his ultimate aim was to design a power loom. Toyoda power loom (Japan's first self-powered loom; wood-iron composite）. The first power loom invented in Japan was the device awarded patent No. 3173 "Loom" in August 1898.
Visitors can delve into not only the creation of the automatic loom, but Sakichi's visions, which lead to the expansion of Japanese industry, including the automotive business. House of Sakichi Toyoda's Birth (Rebuilt October 1990)
Sakichi Toyoda: inventor of Japan’s first power loom, the Type G automatic loom and the original circular loom; founder of the Toyota Group; and a major contributor to the development and modernization of Japan’s machine industries.
Sakichi Toyoda, the founder of Toyota Industries Corporation, possessed a strong ambition to contribute to society from his days as a youth. He had devoted his 63-year-long life to invention.
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