Fusajiro Yamauchi


Fusajirō Yamauchi was a Japanese entrepreneur who founded the company that is now known as Nintendo. Yamauchi lived in Kyoto, Japan and had a wife and a daughter, Tei Yamauchi.

Nintendo Koppai

On November 7, 1889, Fusajiro Yamauchi opened the first “Hanafuda” card shop called “Nintendo Koppai”, during a time when the Japanese 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 in charge of the company. In the next eleven years Fusajiro remained out of the business until he had a stroke, which led to his death in 1940.