# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tanaka-hisashige
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:22:28.967Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tanaka-hisashige"
name: "Tanaka Hisashige"
slug: "tanaka-hisashige"
description: "Hisashige Tanaka  was a Japanese businessman, inventor, mechanical engineer, and rangaku scholar who was prominent during the Bakumatsu and early Meiji period in Japan. In 1875, he founded what became the Toshiba Corporation. He has been called the \"Thomas Edison of Japan\" or \"Karakuri Giemon.\""
tagline: "Japanese engineer (1799–1881)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/TanakaHisashige.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1799-10-16"
deathDate: "1881-11-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.7
  momentum:             10
  historical:           15.35525866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "田中久重"
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    title: "هيساشيجي تاناكا"
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    title: "Tanaka Hisashige"
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    title: "Tanaka Hisashige"
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    title: "Hisashige Tanaka"
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    title: "ทานากะ ฮิซาชิเงะ"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump