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Rizaburo Toyoda, who had married into the family and had not been given that name at birth, preferred the name “Toyota” (toyota) because it required eight brush strokes to write in Japanese, which was considered to be a lucky number, was more aesthetically pleasing (by omitting the diacritic at the end), and had a voiceless consonant rather than a voiced one (voiced consonants are considered to have a “murky” or “muddy” sound compared to voiceless consonants, which are “clear”).
An early photo of Risaburo before his death. Risaburo Toyoda (豊田 利三郎, Toyoda Risaburō, March 5, 1884 – June 3, 1952) was a Japanese entrepreneur. He was the son-in-law of Toyota Industries Co., Ltd founder Sakichi Toyoda, and brother-in-law of Toyota Motor Corporation founder, Kiichiro Toyoda (豊田 喜一郎, Toyoda Kiichirō, June 11, 1894 – March 27, 1952) His original surname was Kodama (児玉).
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.
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Rizaburo Toyoda; S. Sakichi Toyoda; Shoichiro Toyoda; T. Tatsuro Toyoda This page was last edited on 28 December 2017, at 15:58 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Mar 19, 2023 · Kiichiro Toyoda, “the effective founder of Toyota Motor Corporation (formally, of its predecessor, Toyota Motor Co. Ltd),” Footnote 1 was born in 1894 (Meiji 27), the eldest son of Sakichi Toyoda, a leading Japanese inventor, in Yoshizu Village, Fuchi County (present-day Kosai City, Shizuoka Prefecture) on the western shore of Lake Hamana in Shizuoka Prefecture.
Shoichiro Toyoda presided over Toyota Motor Sales in preparation for the consummation of the merger that occurred in 1982. Shoichiro then succeeded his uncle Eiji as the president of the combined organization that then became known as Toyota Motor Corporation. Presidents. Rizaburo Toyoda (1937–1941) Kiichiro Toyoda (1941–1950)
