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Torakusu Yamaha

1851 - 1916

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Torakusu Yamaha (山葉 寅楠, Yamaha Torakusu, 20 April 1851 – 8 August 1916) was a Japanese businessman and entrepreneur known as the founder of the Yamaha Corporation. Yamaha was the first Japanese manufacturer of the reed organ and established Nippon Gakki Co Ltd in Hamamatsu to produce organs and other musical instruments including pianos and harmonicas. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Torakusu Yamaha has received more than 256,876 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Torakusu Yamaha is the 86th most popular businessperson (up from 167th in 2019), the 150th most popular biography from Japan (up from 359th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Japanese Businessperson.

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  • 1.70

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Torakusu Yamaha ranks 86 out of 847. Before him are Mercédès Jellinek, Mark Zuckerberg, Akio Morita, Benjamin Guggenheim, Brian Epstein, and Estée Lauder. After him are Li Ka-shing, Flavio Briatore, Ambroise Vollard, Gianni Infantino, Paul Reuter, and Paul Allen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1851, Torakusu Yamaha ranks 13. Before him are Margherita of Savoy, Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, Olga Constantinovna of Russia, Georg Jellinek, Peder Severin Krøyer, and Léon Bourgeois. After him are Isabella, Princess of Asturias, Martinus Beijerinck, Adolf von Harnack, Arne Garborg, Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Friedrich von Wieser. Among people deceased in 1916, Torakusu Yamaha ranks 32. Before him are Ivan Franko, Max Reger, Eduard Strauss, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz, and Gaston Maspero. After him are Rubén Darío, Percival Lowell, Gérard Encausse, Jean Webster, Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, and Victoriano Huerta.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Torakusu Yamaha ranks 150 out of 6,245. Before him are Sakichi Toyoda (1867), Toyotomi Hideyori (1593), Emperor Sujin (-147), Ishikawa Goemon (1558), Emperor Kanmu (737), and Emperor Kōrei (-341). After him are Issey Miyake (1938), Zeami Motokiyo (1363), Kenzō Takada (1939), Kazuyoshi Miura (1967), Junko Tabei (1939), and Kobayashi Issa (1763).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Japan

Among businesspeople born in Japan, Torakusu Yamaha ranks 4. Before him are Soichiro Honda (1906), Kiichiro Toyoda (1894), and Akio Morita (1921). After him are Iwasaki Yatarō (1835), Hiroshi Yamauchi (1927), Masayoshi Son (1957), Fusajiro Yamauchi (1859), Mineko Iwasaki (1949), Shibusawa Eiichi (1840), Eiji Toyoda (1913), and Mikimoto Kōkichi (1858).

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