*anese:entrepreneur (1859–1940)

Fusajirō Yamauchi (山内 房治郎, Yamauchi Fusajirō, 22 November 1859 – 1 January 1940), born Fusajirō *ui (福井 房治郎), was a *anese entrepreneur who founded the company that is now known as Nintendo. Yamauchi lived in Kyoto, *an and had a wife and a daughter, Tei Yamauchi, who later married Sekiryo Kaneda.

Contents

• 1 Before Nintendo
• 2 Nintendo Karuta
• 3 Retirement and death
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Before Nintendo

Fusajiro *ui was born in 1859 in Kyoto, *an, as the eldest son of Sosuke *ui. Working at Haiko Cement Company, *ui would receive the surname Yamauchi upon being adopted by Naoshichi Yamauchi in 1872

Nintendo Karuta

On 23 September 1889, Fusajiro Yamauchi opened the first Hanafuda (flower cards) card shop called "Nintendo Karuta", during a time when the *anese government was banning playing cards from the hands of the public, due to them being tied to gambling, with the exception of Yamauchi's playing cards. With the huge success he had in selling these cards, he rapidly began expanding and opened another card shop in Osaka. He later went on to create more card games.

Retirement and death

Fusajiro departed from the company in 1929, leaving his son-in-law Sekiryo Kaneda (whose name had changed to Sekiryo Yamauchi) in charge of the company. Fusajiro remained uninvolved in the business for the remainder of his life until he died of a stroke on January 1st, 1940. Fusajiro's great-grandson, Hiroshi Yamauchi, took over Nintendo in September 1949 and ran the company for 53 years, transforming it from a card game company into a multibillion-dollar video gaming company and global conglomerate.

References

External links

• Play

Services

• Nintendo eShop
• Nintendo Network
• Nintendo Network Services
• Club Nintendo
• Nintendo Account
• My Nintendo
• Nintendo Switch Online

Software divisions

• Entertainment Planning & Development
• Platform Technology Development

Publications

• Nintendo Fun Club
• Nintendo La Rivista Ufficiale
• Nintendo Magazine System (Australia)
• Nintendo Player's Guide
• Nintendo Power
• Nintendo World
• Official Nintendo Magazine

Events

• Camp Hyrule
• Cl*ic Tetris World Championship
• Iwata Asks interviews
• Nintendo Campus Challenge
• Nintendo Direct
• Nintendo PowerFest '94
• Nintendo World Championships

Locations

• Nintendo Mégadôme
• Nintendo New York
• Shigureden
• Super Nintendo World

Legal cases

• Atari Games Corp. v. Nintendo of America Inc.
• Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc.
• Nintendo of America, Inc. vs. Blockbuster LLC.
• Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd.
• Nintendo of America, Inc. v. NTDEC

Related

• History
• Development teams
• Characters
• My Nintendo
• Nintendo Australia
• Bergsala
• Marketing
• Nintendo Power Line
• Nintendo Selects
• Nintendo Space World
• Symphonic Legends – Music from Nintendo
• Nintendo data leak