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Where did the MMC logo originate?


 
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 15:36    Post subject: Where did the MMC logo originate? Reply with quote

     
     

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In 1854 feudal Japan, a man named Yataro Iwasaki, son of a provincial farmer whose grandfather sold the family’s samurai status to settle some debt, began his career on the wrong foot: he was called home from school at the age of 19 when his father was injured in a dispute with the village leader. Iwasaki asked a local magistrate to hear his case, and when refused, accused the man of corruption. Iwasaki was promptly jailed for seven months.

Fast forward to 1868: Iwasaki was working for the Tosa clan when the Meiji Restoration abolished Japan’s feudal clan system. He acquired Tsukumo Shokai, the Tosa clan’s shipping business and renamed it Mitsubishi in 1873.

It was a fourth-generation Iwasaki, a man named Kayota Iwasaki, who turned Mitsubishi into a giant corporate group that included an automobile manufacturing company, Mitsubishi Motors.

The name Mitsubishi was a combination of the words "mitsu" (three) and "hishi" (water chestnut, used in Japan to mean a rhombus or a diamond shape). The official translation of the name was "three diamonds."

The Mitsubishi logo was a combination of the Iwasaki family crest, three stacked diamonds, and the three-leaf crest of the Tosa Clan.
 


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 15:44    Post subject: Reply with quote

me thinks you got to much time to yourself  Laughing  Laughing  Laughing  Laughing  Laughing  Laughing  Laughing  Laughing

go and clean yer paj  Laughing  Laughing  Laughing  Laughing  Laughing  Laughing  Laughing  Laughing  Laughing  Laughing  Laughing  Laughing
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 15:45    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very informative, but i think some one has too much time on their hands  Laughing  Laughing  Laughing  Laughing  Laughing  Laughing  Laughing  Laughing  Laughing  Laughing
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 16:30    Post subject: Re: Where did the MMC logo originate? Reply with quote

PoCUK wrote:
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... Fast forward to 1868: Iwasaki was working for the Tosa clan when the Meiji Restoration abolished Japan’s feudal clan system. He acquired Tsukumo Shokai, the Tosa clan’s shipping business.

... the killing of 11 French sailors from the French corvette Dupleix in the port of Sakai near Osaka, Japan in 1868. where attacked by samurai of the Tosa clan !!!
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 16:50    Post subject: Reply with quote

sounds like a load of old tossas to me Laughing  Laughing  Laughing
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 17:44    Post subject: Reply with quote

hmmmm interesting no really



but why is it red!!!!!


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PostPosted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 10:14    Post subject: Reply with quote

Good on you Simon - very informative - as for you having too much time on your hands - as inferred above - if you did not we all wouldnt have the excellent web site that we do have - and do I detect a bit of jeaslousy here  Embarassed
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 15:55    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm laughing at all that's said above. Have a good evening all.  Laughing and support lunar's comments too.
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