Jirō Horikoshi

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Jirō Horikoshi

Jirō Horikoshi ( Japanese 堀 越 二郎 Horikoshi Jirō ; born June 22, 1903 in Fujioka Prefecture Gunma , Japan ; † January 11, 1982 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese aircraft designer.

Life

He attended the Imperial University of Tokyo , where he studied at the Faculty of Engineering. After completing his doctorate in 1927, he worked for Mitsubishi Kōkūki in Nagoya until March 1945. From March 1945, his workplace was relocated to Matsumoto , Nagano Prefecture , and he evacuated his family to his place of birth. In 1932 he married Sumiko Sasaki. In 1937 his son Masao Horikoshi was born. After his time as an aircraft designer, he was a professor at the Japan Defense Institute and at Nippon University .

Jirō Horikoshi died on January 11, 1982 in Tokyo of pneumonia in a hospital.

Services

Jirō Horikoshi was already involved in the development of the Mitsubishi A5M fighter aircraft in the early 1930s . Before and during the Pacific War, he designed the most popular fighter aircraft in the Japanese Empire .

After the war he continued his career in aircraft construction; he lectured at Japanese universities and was involved in the development of the NAMC YS-11 passenger aircraft .

Works

Jirō Horikoshi (center) in July 1937

reception

In 2013, Hayao Miyazaki made Jirō Horikoshi's life the subject of the anime film How the Wind Rises , which was a huge hit in Japan and sparked controversial discussions around the world. The film mainly tells of Horikoshi's time at Mitsubishi Kōkūki in the 1930s, in which he designed the Mitsubishi A5M and Mitsubishi A6M .

literature

  • Jiro Horikoshi: Eagles of Mitsubishi: The Story of the Zero Fighter . University of Washington Press, Washington, DC 1992, ISBN 978-0-295-97168-1 (American English).
  • Masatake Okumiya, Martin Caidin, Jiro Horikoshi: Zero . ibooks Inc, 2002, ISBN 978-0-7434-4491-0 (American English).

Web links

Commons : Jirō Horikoshi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ James D'Angina: Mitsubishi A6M Zero . Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016, ISBN 978-1-4728-0822-6 ( google.de [accessed October 2, 2019]).
  2. ↑ a b 「風 立 ち ぬ」 の モ デ ル ・ 堀 越 二郎 ～ 家族 が 語 る 零 戦 の 設計者 の 素 顔. Retrieved May 18, 2020 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ Ap: Jiro Horikoshi, 78, Dies in Tokyo; Designer of Zero Fighter Aircraft . In: The New York Times . January 12, 1982, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed May 18, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Jiro Horikoshi. In: Flight International . Flightglobal, January 23, 1982, p. 178 , accessed on July 24, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Jiro Horikoshi, 78 this in Tokyo. Designer of the Zero Fighter Aircraft. The New York Times, January 11, 1982, accessed July 24, 2017 .
  6. ^ Moritz Piehler: How the wind rises. The disaster will come. In: Culture. Spiegel Online , July 16, 2014, accessed on July 24, 2017 : "With his last film, of all things, the Japanese anime master Hayao Miyazaki sparked political debates: The hero of" As the Wind Rises "is the inventor of the infamous airplane, with which the Japanese triumphed in World War II. "


personal data
SURNAME Horikoshi, Jirō
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 堀 越 二郎 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese aircraft designer
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH near Fujioka Gunma Prefecture , Japan
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1982
Place of death Tokyo