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Jul 29, 2013 · In 1881, Tanaka died of old age at eighty-two. His son then took over Tanaka Engineering works. The name was changed to Shibaura Engineering Works in 1904, merged with Tokyo Denki in 1939, and then became known as Tokyo Shibaura Denki. More commonly, though, it was known as Toshiba. To -kyo Shiba -ura Denki.
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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. He has been called the " Thomas Edison of Japan" or "Karakuri Giemon."
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Tanaka Hisashige ( ) Tanaka Hisashige (. ) 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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Introductions of the attractiveness of Man-nen Dokei, National important cultural property that was designed and produced by Hisashige Tanaka. Hisashige's Works Hisahige Tanaka was known as “Karakuri Giemon,” the genius of mechanical things, Here we introduce his works, full of originality and humor.
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.”
