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This article uses <a href="/wiki/Personal_name#Western_name_order" title="Personal name">Western name order</a> when mentioning individuals.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">In this <a href="/wiki/Japanese_name" title="Japanese name">Japanese name</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Surname" title="Surname">surname</a> is <i> Tanaka</i>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Tanaka Hisashige</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:TanakaHisashige.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/TanakaHisashige.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="255" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="147" data-file-height="250" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1799-10-16</span>)</span>October 16, 1799<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Kurume,_Fukuoka" class="mw-redirect" title="Kurume, Fukuoka">Kurume, Fukuoka</a>, <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">November 7, 1881<span style="display:none">(1881-11-07)</span> (aged 82)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Tokyo" title="Tokyo">Tokyo</a>, Japan</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation(s)</th><td class="infobox-data role">Businessman, inventor, mechanical engineer, rangaku scholar</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Hisashige Tanaka</b><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">田中久重</span></span>, October 16, 1799 – November 7, 1881)</span> was a Japanese businessman, inventor, mechanical engineer, and <a href="/wiki/Rangaku" title="Rangaku">rangaku</a> scholar who was prominent during the <a href="/wiki/Bakumatsu_period" class="mw-redirect" title="Bakumatsu period">Bakumatsu</a> and early <a href="/wiki/Meiji_period" class="mw-redirect" title="Meiji period">Meiji period</a> in <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a>. In 1875, he founded what became the <a href="/wiki/Toshiba_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Toshiba Corporation">Toshiba Corporation</a>. He has been called the "<a href="/wiki/Thomas_Edison" title="Thomas Edison">Thomas Edison</a> of Japan" or "Karakuri Giemon."<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tanaka_Hisashige&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Tanaka was born in <a href="/wiki/Kurume,_Fukuoka" class="mw-redirect" title="Kurume, Fukuoka">Kurume</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chikugo_province" class="mw-redirect" title="Chikugo province">Chikugo province</a> (present-day <a href="/wiki/Fukuoka_prefecture" class="mw-redirect" title="Fukuoka prefecture">Fukuoka prefecture</a>) as the eldest son of a <a href="/wiki/Tortoiseshell_material" class="mw-redirect" title="Tortoiseshell material">tortoise shell</a> craftsman. Apprenticed at an early age, he was a gifted artisan. At the age of eight, he invented an inkstone case with a secret lock, which required a cord to be twisted in a certain manner to open it. At the age of 14, he had invented a loom capable of weaving intricate designs into fabric. </p><p>From age 20 he began to make <a href="/wiki/Karakuri_puppet" title="Karakuri puppet"><i>karakuri</i> puppet</a> dolls, autonomous dolls powered by springs, pneumatics and hydraulics,<sup id="cite_ref-Odagiri-Goto_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Odagiri-Goto-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> capable of relatively complex movements, which were much in demand by the <a href="/wiki/Kuge" title="Kuge">aristocrats</a> of <a href="/wiki/Kyoto" title="Kyoto">Kyoto</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Daimy%C5%8D" class="mw-redirect" title="Daimyō">daimyō</a></i> in feudal domains, and by the <a href="/wiki/Tokugawa_shogunate" title="Tokugawa shogunate">Shōgun's</a> court in <a href="/wiki/Edo" title="Edo">Edo</a>. At age 21, he was performing around the country at festivals with clockwork dolls he constructed himself. He declined to take over the family business, surrendering his position to his younger brother and devoted his full attention to <i>karakuri</i> dolls. It is often said that the best masterpieces of his <i>karakuri</i> are <i>Yumi-Hiki Doji </i>(arrow-shooting boy) and <i>Moji-kaki</i> doll (letter-writing doll).<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his mid-thirties, however, he aspired to invent more practical products. In 1834, he relocated to <a href="/wiki/Osaka" title="Osaka">Osaka</a>, where he experimented in <a href="/wiki/Pneumatics" title="Pneumatics">pneumatics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hydraulics" title="Hydraulics">hydraulics</a> and forms of lighting based on <a href="/wiki/Rapeseed_oil" title="Rapeseed oil">rapeseed oil</a>, including a pocket candlestick and an oil lamp with an air-pressurized fuel pump which proved to be very popular. </p><p>He then moved on to Kyoto, where he studied <i><a href="/wiki/Rangaku" title="Rangaku">rangaku</a></i>, or western learning, and <a href="/wiki/Astronomy" title="Astronomy">astronomy</a>. He invented a pneumatic fire pump, and in 1851, he built a <a href="/wiki/Myriad_year_clock" title="Myriad year clock">myriad year clock</a> which is now designated as an <a href="/wiki/Important_Cultural_Properties_of_Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="Important Cultural Properties of Japan">Important Cultural Property</a> by the Japanese government. </p><p>With the development of the <i><a href="/wiki/Sonn%C5%8D_j%C5%8Di" title="Sonnō jōi">Sonnō jōi</a></i> movement, the atmosphere in Kyoto became increasingly dangerous towards foreign influences and technology, and Tanaka was invited by <a href="/wiki/Sano_Tsunetami" title="Sano Tsunetami">Sano Tsunetami</a> to <a href="/wiki/Saga_Domain" title="Saga Domain">Saga Domain</a> in <a href="/wiki/Ky%C5%ABsh%C5%AB" class="mw-redirect" title="Kyūshū">Kyūshū</a>, where he was welcomed by <a href="/wiki/Nabeshima_Naomasa" title="Nabeshima Naomasa">Nabeshima Naomasa</a>. </p><p>While in Saga, Tanaka designed and built Japan's first domestically made <a href="/wiki/Steam_locomotive" title="Steam locomotive">steam locomotive</a> and steam warship. Although he had no previous experience in the field, he had access to a Dutch reference book and had watched the demonstration of a <a href="/wiki/Steam_engine" title="Steam engine">steam engine</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russian</a> diplomat <a href="/wiki/Yevfimy_Putyatin" class="mw-redirect" title="Yevfimy Putyatin">Yevfimy Putyatin</a> during his visit to <a href="/wiki/Nagasaki,_Nagasaki" class="mw-redirect" title="Nagasaki, Nagasaki">Nagasaki</a> in 1853. He later was a student at the <a href="/wiki/Nagasaki_Naval_Training_Center" title="Nagasaki Naval Training Center">Nagasaki Naval Training Center</a>. On its closure and the withdrawal of its Dutch advisors, Tanaka moved back to Saga and worked at the <i>Seirenkata</i>, where he built models of steam warships (both with screws and with side-paddles), a steam locomotive and experimented with making a telegraph and a glass factory. </p><p>He was involved in the construction of a <a href="/wiki/Reverberatory_furnace" title="Reverberatory furnace">reverberatory furnace</a> in Saga for the production of <a href="/wiki/Armstrong_gun" title="Armstrong gun">Armstrong guns</a>. In 1864, he returned to his native <a href="/wiki/Kurume_Domain" title="Kurume Domain">Kurume Domain</a>, where he assisted in the development of modern weaponry. </p><p>In 1873, six years after the <a href="/wiki/Meiji_Restoration" title="Meiji Restoration">Meiji Restoration</a>, Tanaka, then age 74 and still energetic, was invited by the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Industry_(Japan)" title="Ministry of Industry (Japan)">Ministry of Industry</a> to come to Tokyo to make telegraphs at the ministry's small factory. He relocated to the <a href="/wiki/Ginza,_Tokyo" class="mw-redirect" title="Ginza, Tokyo">Ginza district</a> in 1875. He rented the second floor of a temple in what is now <a href="/wiki/Roppongi" title="Roppongi">Roppongi</a> as a workshop that evolved into his first company—Tanaka Seisakusho (Tanaka Engineering Works), the first manufacturer of telegraph equipment in Japan.<sup id="cite_ref-Odagiri-Goto_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Odagiri-Goto-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After his death in 1881, his son founded Tanaka Engineering Works<span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">田中製造所</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Tanaka Seizōsho</i></span>)</span>. The company changed its name after Tanaka's death to Shibaura Engineering Works<span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">芝浦製造所</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Shibaura Seizōsho</i></span>)</span> in 1904. After a merger in 1939 with Tokyo Denki it became Tokyo Shibaura Denki, more commonly known today as <a href="/wiki/Toshiba" title="Toshiba">Toshiba</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tanaka_Hisashige&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed" style="text-align: center;"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 273.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 271.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:%E5%BC%93%E6%9B%B3%E3%81%8D%E7%AB%A5%E5%AD%90%E6%AD%A3%E9%9D%A2.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Karakuri puppet, Yumi-Hiki Doji. Using mechanical power, a puppet shoots a target with a bow and arrow."><img alt="Karakuri puppet, Yumi-Hiki Doji. Using mechanical power, a puppet shoots a target with a bow and arrow." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/%E5%BC%93%E6%9B%B3%E3%81%8D%E7%AB%A5%E5%AD%90%E6%AD%A3%E9%9D%A2.jpg/407px-%E5%BC%93%E6%9B%B3%E3%81%8D%E7%AB%A5%E5%AD%90%E6%AD%A3%E9%9D%A2.jpg" decoding="async" width="272" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/%E5%BC%93%E6%9B%B3%E3%81%8D%E7%AB%A5%E5%AD%90%E6%AD%A3%E9%9D%A2.jpg/610px-%E5%BC%93%E6%9B%B3%E3%81%8D%E7%AB%A5%E5%AD%90%E6%AD%A3%E9%9D%A2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/%E5%BC%93%E6%9B%B3%E3%81%8D%E7%AB%A5%E5%AD%90%E6%AD%A3%E9%9D%A2.jpg/813px-%E5%BC%93%E6%9B%B3%E3%81%8D%E7%AB%A5%E5%AD%90%E6%AD%A3%E9%9D%A2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4288" data-file-height="2848" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i>Karakuri</i> puppet, <i>Yumi-Hiki Doji</i>. Using mechanical power, a puppet shoots a target with a bow and arrow.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 182px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 180px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97%E6%9B%B8%E3%81%8D%E4%BA%BA%E5%BD%A2.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Karakuri puppet, Moji-kaki doll. Using mechanical power, a puppet dips a brush into ink and writes a character on paper."><img alt="Karakuri puppet, Moji-kaki doll. Using mechanical power, a puppet dips a brush into ink and writes a character on paper." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97%E6%9B%B8%E3%81%8D%E4%BA%BA%E5%BD%A2.jpg/270px-%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97%E6%9B%B8%E3%81%8D%E4%BA%BA%E5%BD%A2.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97%E6%9B%B8%E3%81%8D%E4%BA%BA%E5%BD%A2.jpg/405px-%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97%E6%9B%B8%E3%81%8D%E4%BA%BA%E5%BD%A2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97%E6%9B%B8%E3%81%8D%E4%BA%BA%E5%BD%A2.jpg/540px-%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97%E6%9B%B8%E3%81%8D%E4%BA%BA%E5%BD%A2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3159" data-file-height="3159" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i>Karakuri</i> puppet, <i>Moji-kaki doll</i>. Using mechanical power, a puppet dips a brush into ink and writes a character on paper.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 127.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 125.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Myriad-Year_Clock,_made_by_Hisashige_Tanaka,_1851,_with_western_and_Japanese_dials,_weekly,_monthly,_and_zodiac_setting,_plus_sun_and_moon_-_National_Museum_of_Nature_and_Science,_Tokyo_-_DSC07407.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Tanaka Hisashige's 1851 perpetual clock, in the National Science Museum."><img alt="Tanaka Hisashige's 1851 perpetual clock, in the National Science Museum." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Myriad-Year_Clock%2C_made_by_Hisashige_Tanaka%2C_1851%2C_with_western_and_Japanese_dials%2C_weekly%2C_monthly%2C_and_zodiac_setting%2C_plus_sun_and_moon_-_National_Museum_of_Nature_and_Science%2C_Tokyo_-_DSC07407.JPG/188px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="126" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Myriad-Year_Clock%2C_made_by_Hisashige_Tanaka%2C_1851%2C_with_western_and_Japanese_dials%2C_weekly%2C_monthly%2C_and_zodiac_setting%2C_plus_sun_and_moon_-_National_Museum_of_Nature_and_Science%2C_Tokyo_-_DSC07407.JPG/283px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Myriad-Year_Clock%2C_made_by_Hisashige_Tanaka%2C_1851%2C_with_western_and_Japanese_dials%2C_weekly%2C_monthly%2C_and_zodiac_setting%2C_plus_sun_and_moon_-_National_Museum_of_Nature_and_Science%2C_Tokyo_-_DSC07407.JPG/377px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3547" data-file-height="5080" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Tanaka Hisashige's 1851 <a href="/wiki/Myriad_year_clock" title="Myriad year clock">perpetual clock</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/National_Science_Museum_of_Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="National Science Museum of Japan">National Science Museum</a>.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 213.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 211.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:JapanSteamEngine1853.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Japan's first steam engine, manufactured in 1853 by Tanaka."><img alt="Japan's first steam engine, manufactured in 1853 by Tanaka." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/JapanSteamEngine1853.jpg/317px-JapanSteamEngine1853.jpg" decoding="async" width="212" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/JapanSteamEngine1853.jpg/476px-JapanSteamEngine1853.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/JapanSteamEngine1853.jpg/634px-JapanSteamEngine1853.jpg 2x" data-file-width="713" data-file-height="607" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Japan's first steam engine, manufactured in 1853 by Tanaka.</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span 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Clarendon Press, Oxford. p. 157. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-828802-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-19-828802-6"><bdi>0-19-828802-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Technology+and+Industrial+Development+in+Japan&rft.pages=157&rft.pub=Clarendon+Press%2C+Oxford&rft.date=1996&rft.isbn=0-19-828802-6&rft.aulast=Odagiri&rft.aufirst=Hiroyuki&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATanaka+Hisashige" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210119045121/https://museum.seiko.co.jp/en/knowledge/inventors_04/">Hisashige Tanaka (1799-1881).</a> The Seiko Museum Ginza.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <ul><li>Morris-Suzuki, Tessa. <i>The Technological Transformation of Japan: From the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century</i>, Cambridge University Press, 1994. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-521-42492-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-521-42492-5">0-521-42492-5</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tanaka_Hisashige&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web-japan.org/nipponia/nipponia38/en/feature/feature06.html">Bow Shooting Boy</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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