Fusajiro Yamauchi
Fusajiro Yamauchi (山内 房治郎 Yamauchi Fusajirō, November 22, 1859 – January 1940) was a Japanese entrepreneur who founded the company that is now known as Nintendo Company Limited. Yamauchi lived in Kyoto, Japan and had a daughter, Tei Yamauchi (who later married future Nintendo president and Fusajiro Yamauchi's successor, Sekiryo Kaneda).[1]
Fusajiro Yamauchi began his business under the name "Nintendo Koppai" in 1889, and its name eventually changed to just Nintendo.[2] The company made playing cards for a Japanese game called hanafuda, which requires a 48 card set. Yamauchi manufactured these cards under the brand name Daitoryo, which translates to President.[3] Each card was hand made using bark from mulberry (or mitsu-mata) trees. He sold the cards in two different shops in Japan; one in Kyoto and one in Osaka. After the popularization of his hanafuda cards, Fusajiro expanded his business into producing western style playing cards (known in Japan as toranpu).
Fusajiro Yamauchi retired in 1929, at the age of 70. His son-in-law, Sekiryo Kaneda, who later changed his name to Sekiryo Yamauchi,[4] took over his company.[1] Yamauchi died in 1940 from a stroke.
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Nintendo History Lesson". N-Sider Media. September 12, 2003. http://www.n-sider.com/contentview.php?contentid=34. Retrieved April 6, 2011.
- ^ Kohler, Chris (September 23, 2010). "Sept. 23, 1889: Success Is in the Cards for Nintendo". Wired. http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2010/09/0923nintendo-founded/. Retrieved April 6, 2011.
- ^ Sheff, David (1999) [1993]. Game Over - How Nintendo Conquered the World. GamePress. p. 14. ISBN 0966961706.
- ^ "Fusajiro Yamauchi - Founder of Nintendo". http://classicgames.about.com/od/classicvideogames101/p/FusajiroYamauch.htm. Retrieved August 25, 2011.
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