page_title: Japanese typewriter
hierarchical_section_title: Japanese typewriter
caption_attribution_description: Spaarnestad Photo, SFA022807479 Japanse schrijfmachine: de typiste moet het letterbord met losliggende karakters in de juiste positie brengen, om het juiste karakter te kunnen aanslaan. 1938. Collectie SPAARNESTAD PHOTO/Het Leven Japanese typewriter: a panel (type case) with characters lying loose must be brought in the right position before the character can be typed. 1938. Voor meer informatie en voor meer foto’s uit de collectie van Spaarnestad Photo, bezoek onze Beeldbank: &lt;a href="http://www.spaarnestadphoto.nl/" rel="nofollow"&gt;www.spaarnestadphoto.nl/&lt;/a&gt; U kunt ons helpen onze kennis van de fotocollecties te verrijken door tags en commentaren toe te voegen. Herkent u mensen of locaties of heeft u een bijzonder verhaal te vertellen bij één van de foto’s, laat dan een reactie achter (als u ingelogd bent bij Flickr) of stuur een mailtje naar: hhamelink@spaarnestadphoto.nl You can help us gain more knowledge on the content of our collection by simply adding a comment with information. If you do not wish to log in, you can write an e-mail to: hhamelink@spaarnestadphoto.nl
context_page_description: The first practical Japanese typewriter was invented by Kyota Sugimoto in 1915. Out of the thousands of kanji characters, Kyota's original typewriter used 2,400 of them. He obtained the patent rights to the typewriter that he invented in 1929. Sugimoto's typewriter met its competition when the Oriental Typewriter was invented by Shimada Minokichi. The Otani Japanese Typewriter Company and Toshiba also released their own typewriters later.
  The Japanese typewriter, however, was bulky and laborious to use. Unlike the English-language typewriter, which allows the typist to key in text quickly, one needed to locate and then retrieve the desired character from a large matrix of metal characters. For instance, to type a sentence, the typist would need to find and retrieve around 22 symbols from about three different character matrices, making the sentence longer to type than its romanized version. For this reason, typists are required to undergo specialized training and word processing was not part of the duties of the ordinary office workers.
context_section_description: The first practical Japanese typewriter (Japanese: 和文タイプライター, Hepburn: wabun taipuraitā) was invented by Kyota Sugimoto in 1915. Out of the thousands of kanji characters, Kyota's original typewriter used 2,400 of them. He obtained the patent rights to the typewriter that he invented in 1929. Sugimoto's typewriter met its competition when the Oriental Typewriter was invented by Shimada Minokichi. The Otani Japanese Typewriter Company and Toshiba also released their own typewriters later.
  The Japanese typewriter, however, was bulky and laborious to use. Unlike the English-language typewriter, which allows the typist to key in text quickly, one needed to locate and then retrieve the desired character from a large matrix of metal characters. For instance, to type a sentence, the typist would need to find and retrieve around 22 symbols from about three different character matrices, making the sentence longer to type than its romanized version. For this reason, typists are required to undergo specialized training and word processing was not part of the duties of the ordinary office workers.
caption: A typist uses a Japanese typewriter
exif: {"Image ImageDescription": "Kantoormachines, typemachines. Een Japanse schrijfmachine heeft een letterbord met honderden losliggende karakters. De typiste brengt met de ene hand de aanwijzer boven het gewenste karakter en bedient met de andere hand het instrument waarmee het karakter tegen het papier wordt geslagen. Foto: typiste bedient Japanse schrijfmachine. 1938.", "Image Artist": "Fotograaf onbekend", "Image Copyright": "Collectie SPAARNESTAD PHOTO/Het Leven/Fotograaf onbekend", "Image DateTime": "2009:07:31 10:05:23", "Image Software": "Memorix - pictura-dp.nl"}