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Fusajiro Yamauchi
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Fusajiro Yamauchi (formally Fusajirō Fukui/福井 房治郎) was the founder of Nintendo in 1889. At this time, it was formally known as Nintendo Konekai/任天堂骨牌 He was born in Kyoto, Japan in 1859 as the eldest son of Sosuke Fukui.[1][2]
Before forming Nintendo, he worked at the Haiko Cement Company.[3]
On September 23, 1889 he opened a Hanafuda card shop known as Nintendo Koppai.[4][5]
References
Reworked from the English and Japanese Wikipedia articles.
- ↑ Jinji Kōshinroku Dai 9th Edition (Personnel Koshinsho, 1931); via Japanese Wikipedia citation (人事興信所編『人事興信録 第9版』（人事興信所、1931年)
- ↑ Gnn.gamer.tw article with an image of Nintendo Konekai
- ↑ Meiji150.Kyoto ; "灰孝本店と任天堂の基礎を築いた山内房治郎（山内一正さん）" (2017 web article)
- ↑ Archived N-Sider article from 2009
- ↑ NNDB page from 2014
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