Ikai Tane

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Ikai Tane ( Japanese 猪 飼 た ね ; born January 18, 1879 in Kansei, Aichi County (now Minato-ku , Nagoya ); † July 12, 1995 in Nagoya) was a Japanese supercentenarian and 1994-1997 the second oldest person of all time .

Life

Ikai was born in 1879 as the third daughter of six children to a farming family in Aichi Prefecture. She married at the age of 20 and had three sons and a daughter. In 1917, at the age of 38, she separated from her husband. In 1968, at the age of 89, she came to a nursing home. In 1988 , when she was 109, she suffered a stroke and was transferred to hospital, where she was bedridden for the rest of her life.

Since Shirahama Waka's death on June 16, 1992, Ikai was the oldest living Japanese and Asian woman. On April 14, 1993, she exceeded their age and was one of the 10 oldest people of all time. As of August 14, 1993 Ikai was among the five oldest, and since July 30, 1994 among the three oldest. From September 4, 1994 to February 21, 1997, she was the second oldest person of all time behind the French Jeanne Calment . Ikai, however, never became the oldest living person, as Calment was born four years before her and only died two years after her. Ikai died of kidney failure in Nagoya on July 12, 1995 at the age of 116 years and 175 days . None of her children survived.

Ikai was the oldest Japanese and Asian woman of all time until August 28, 2014, when Ōkawa Misao overtook her. For Guinness World Records , however, Izumi Shigechiyo's record as the oldest Japanese and Asian was still valid until 2010 , until this was subsequently revoked. When Tajima Nabi exceeded Ikai's age on January 26, 2017, she dropped out of the list of the 10 oldest people.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Associated Press : Oldest Japanese Dies at Age 116 . In: Tulsa World , NewsBank, Jul 14, 1995, p. F3. Retrieved December 13, 2008. 
  2. ↑ Heiner Maier: Supercentenarians . Springer, 2010, ISBN 3-642-11519-5 , pp. 294-295.
  3. ↑ Craig Glenday: Guinness Book of World Records 2011, p. 211.
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Ikai is the family name, Tane the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Ikai, Tane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 猪 飼 た ね (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese supercentenarian, second oldest person (1994–1997)
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Kansei, Aichi County (now Minato-ku , Nagoya )
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1995
Place of death Nagoya , Japan