Hata Itsuzo - Hata Itsuzo

Japanese: 秦逸三 - はたいつぞう
Hata Itsuzo - Hata Itsuzo

Chemist and businessman. Pioneer of the rayon industry. Born in Kaitaichi-cho, Aki-gun, Hiroshima Prefecture (now Kaita-cho). Graduated from the Department of Applied Chemistry at the College of Technology, Tokyo Imperial University in 1908 (Meiji 41). Through the kindness of Kaneko Naokichi of Suzuki Shoten, he worked as a professor at Yonezawa Higher Technical School from 1913 to 1916 (Taisho 2 to 5), while also researching the manufacturing method of viscose rayon in cooperation with the Yonezawa branch factory of Azuma Kogyo Co., Ltd. In 1916, he went on a business trip to Europe and the United States to inspect the rayon industry, and in 1918, with the founding of Teikoku Rayon Co., Ltd. (now Teijin), he became a director of the company along with his schoolmate Kumura Seita, who was also researching viscose rayon, and the chief engineer of the Yonezawa factory of Teikoku Rayon Co., Ltd. After working at the Hiroshima factory, he became president of the Second Teikoku Rayon Co., Ltd. in 1934 (Showa 9).

[Toshio Yamazaki]

“Itsuzo Hata” by Fumio Niwa (1955, Imperial Silk)

[Reference item] | Naoyoshi Kaneko | Seita Hisamura | Teijin Limited | Viscose rayon | Rayon

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

化学者、実業家。人絹工業の開拓者。広島県安芸(あき)郡海田市町(現、海田町)に生まれる。1908年(明治41)東京帝国大学工科大学応用化学科を卒業。鈴木商店の金子直吉(なおきち)の知遇を受け、1913~1916年(大正2~5)、米沢(よねざわ)高等工業学校教授のかたわら東(あずま)工業株式会社米沢分工場に協力してビスコース人絹の製法を研究。1916年人造絹糸業視察のため欧米に出張、1918年帝国人造絹糸株式会社(現、帝人)の創立とともに同じビスコース人絹を研究していた学友の久村清太(くむらせいた)とともに同社取締役となり、同米沢工場技師長となり、広島工場を経て、1934年(昭和9)第二帝国人絹株式会社社長となった。

[山崎俊雄]

『丹羽文雄著『秦逸三』(1955・帝国人絹)』

[参照項目] | 金子直吉 | 久村清太 | 帝人(株) | ビスコースレーヨン | レーヨン

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