Yamauchi Fusajirō

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Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Yamauchi is the family name, Fusajirō the first name.

Yamauchi Fusajirō ( Japanese 山 内 房 治郎 ; * November 22, 1859 , † January 1, 1940 ) was a Japanese entrepreneur and founder of the Nintendo company .

Life

Yamauchi founded the Nintendō Koppai company in 1889. It initially produced traditional Japanese cards called Hanafuda cards. In 1929 he gave the company to Kaneda Sekiryō . Yamauchi lived in Kyoto and has a daughter, Yamauchi Tei , who later married Kaneda Sekiryō and was Yamauchi's successor.

Yamauchi was the great-grandfather of Nintendo President Yamauchi Hiroshi , who headed the company until 2002.

personal data
SURNAME Yamauchi Fusajirō
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 山 内 房 治郎 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1859
DATE OF DEATH January 1940