tondeuse

…The first electric clippers were imported from America in 1920, but domestically produced clippers were made within a few years. The history of clipper production in Japan began in 1888, when former gunsmith Ito Kanekichi was inspired by a tondeuse, a sheep and horse hair shearer he had been asked to repair, and came up with a large one called the Japanese two-handed jack. Meanwhile, the first domestic clipper, modeled after the French one-handed type, was completed in 1890 by Nakamura Tomojiro in Tokyo, and became popular as a quick hair-cutting scissors following the Sino-Japanese War. …

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…1920年に電動式がアメリカから最初に輸入されたが，数年を待たず国産品がつくられた。　日本のバリカン製作史は，1888年，元鉄砲鍛冶の伊藤兼吉が，修理を頼まれた羊や馬の毛を刈るトンドゥーズtondeuseにヒントを得て，日本式両手ジャッキと呼ばれる大型のものを考案したことに始まる。一方，フランス型片手式をモデルにした国産第1号は東京の中村友次郎によって90年に完成，日清戦争を契機に頭髪早刈鋏として普及する。…

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