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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. His son, Kiichiro Toyoda, would later ...
Sakichi Toyoda, the founder of Toyota Industries Corporation, was born in 1867 in Yamaguchi-mura, Fuchi-no-kori, Totomi-no-kuni (presently Kosai City, Shizuoka Prefecture). He was the first son of Ikichi and Ei Toyoda. Ikichi was a farmer who also worked as a carpenter to support his family. He was a highly skilled carpenter that many relied on.
Sakichi Toyoda was born on February 14, 1867 in the village of Yamaguchi (now part of the city of Kosai) in Shizuoka Prefecture. This year also marked the birth of modern Japan. On October 14, 1867, Yoshinobu Tokugawa, the 15th and final shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate submitted his resignation and handed the reins of government to the imperial court, a change which was effected on December 9.
History. Toyota Industries Corporation was founded in 1926 by Sakichi Toyoda to manufacture and sell the automatic looms which he had invented and perfected. Since that time Toyota Industries has promoted diversification and expanded the scope of its business domains to include textile machinery, automobiles (vehicles, engines, car air ...
Sakichi Toyoda was born in this area in 1867 (also known as the 3rd year of the Keio period in the Japanese calendar). In 1890, he came across a foreign-made loom at an industrial exhibition in Tokyo. Sakichi shortly thereafter invented a human-powered wooden loom in what was to be known as the "Toyota-style."
Sakichi Toyoda. 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. Here, we trace the course of Sakichi’s life. 1867. Born in Shizuoka Prefecture (Yamaguchi ...
Description. Businessman and inventor. Born in Shizuoka as the son of a carpenter. He became a mechanic at a textile factory in Nagoya, where he invented his first wooden handloom in 1890, and the first Japanese-designed automatic power loom in 1897. Mitsui saw Toyoda's skill and welcomed him as their chief engineer at the Igeta Shokai in 1899.
