Died 1940-01-01.
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Fusajirō Yamauchi
Fusajirō Yamauchi , originally born as Fusajirō Fukui , was a Japanese entrepreneur who founded Yamauchi Nintendo, later known as Nintendo. Yamauchi lived in Kyoto, Japan, and had a wife and two daughters—one of whom was Tei Yamauchi, who later married Sekiryō Kaneda, the successor and second president of Nintendo.
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business · Japanese businessman (1859–1940) · entrepreneur · also Fusajirō Yamauchi, Fusajiro Yamauchi, Yamauchi Fusajirō, Yamauchi
Born 22 November 1859 · Died 1 January 1940 · Q456052
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1940· 1 entry
1929· 1 entry
Nintendo had become the largest playing-card company in Japan
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1907· 1 entry
Fusajiro expanded Nintendo's operations by making a deal with Nihon Senbai (now Japan Tobacco) to sell Nintendo cards in cigarette shops throughout all of Japan
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1905· 1 entry
Between Sekiryō Kaneda, an employee who started working at Nintendo at the beginning of the decade, and one of his two daughters, Tei
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1890· 1 entry
Nintendo expands its products and starts selling Uta-garuta decks
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1889· 2 entries
Fusajiro Yamauchi opened Yamauchi Fusajirō Shōten, also known as Yamauchi Nintendo (other sources also mention the name Nintendo Koppai) at the location of an unoccupied house he had purchased
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Career landmark: director (1889–1929).
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1885· 3 entries
So too did occidental playing cards (the Standard 52-card deck) become allowed
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Gambling laws were relaxed in Japan, and Hanafuda cards, which were previously banned, became legal
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Fusajirō inherited the company at the age of 17 and renamed it Haikyō
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1859· 2 entries
Born 1859-11-22.
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As the oldest son of Sōsuke Fukui, a craftsperson
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