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Ichizō Kobayashi (小林 一三, Kobayashi Ichizō, January 3, 1873 – January 25, 1957), occasionally referred to by his pseudonym Itsuō (逸翁), was a Japanese industrialist and politician. He is best known as the founder of Hankyu Railway, the Takarazuka Revue, and Toho.
Jun 9, 2014 · Kobayashi Ichizō (1873–1957) was a powerful corporate leader, but today he is best remembered as the founder of the perennially popular all-female Takarazuka Revue. What began as a scheme to...
Description. After graduating from Keio Gijuku University in 1892, he joined Mitsui Ginko (the Mitsui Bank) in 1893. He participated in the establishment of the Minoo Arima Denki Kido (Minoo Arima Electric Tramway) (later Hanshin Electric Railway Express), and became the vice-president in 1907. He assumed the presidency in 1927.
Ichizō Kobayashi (小林 一三, Kobayashi Ichizō, January 3, 1873; Nirasaki, Yamanashi – January 25, 1957; Ikeda, Osaka ), is Japanese industrialist. He is best known as the founder of Hankyu Railway, the Takarazuka Revue, and Toho. He represented Japanese capital in government.
Jun 4, 2014 · Founder Kobayashi Ichizō’s famous phrase, “Purity, Honesty, Beauty,” is the motto of the Takarazuka Revue.
Born in 1873, Ichizo Kobayashi was originally an orphan and raised by his uncle and aunt. During the schooling period in Keio University he was a young literature enthusiast with aspirations of becoming a novelist, but he failed to achieve that dream and became a bank employee instead.
…was founded in 1936 by Kobayashi Ichizō, a former businessman who was the creator of an all-girl “opera troupe.” In 1932 he had organized the Tokyo Takarazuka Theatre Corporation, subsequently acquiring several established theatres and building new and larger ones.
