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Tomiji Hirano
Japanese shipbuilder and typefounder, b. Nagasaki (1846), d. Tokyo (1892). In 1871, he took over Motogi's Type foundry. In 1872, he started a new typefounding factory in Kanda, Tokyo. In 1879, he asked Shigeru Magata to cut a new version of Mincho for his foundry. In 1885, he reorganized his typefounding factories and set up the Tokyo Tsukiji Type foundry. Hirano's biography (PDF) was written by Taro Yamamoto in 2002. |
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