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Hisashige Tanaka.

Hisashige Tanaka(October 1799- January 1881)

He called "Edison of the East" because he developed the Karakuri Dolls "Yumihikidoji", "Mojikakimingyo" and Japanese clock "Mannen Dokei(Myriad Year Clock)".


Hisashige Tanaka is the founder of Shibaura Manufacturing (later Toshiba). From his young age, he got his talent, invented a new mechanism of Karakuri Dolls one after another and became a big reputation, becoming called "Karakuri Giuemon".
In addition, he completed Shumisengi, which embodied the Paleontological theory. After that, he completed "Myriad Year Clock" which carried out various gimmicks such as the automatic interval movement of the dial in correspondence with the temporal hour system of different length of the day and night time according to the season.


田中久重(1799年10月~1881年1月)

からくり人形「弓曳童子」「文字書き人形」や和時計「万年時計(万年自鳴鐘)」などを開発し、「東洋のエジソン」として知られる。


田中久重は芝浦製作所(後の東芝)の創業者である。幼い頃から才能を発揮し、からくり人形の新しい仕掛けを次々と考案して大評判となり、「からくり儀右衛門」と呼ばれるようになる。
また、天動説を具現化した須弥山儀を完成させ、季節によって昼夜の時刻の長さの違う不定時法に対応して文字盤の間隔が全自動で動くなどの、様々な仕掛けを施した「万年自鳴鐘」を完成させた。

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