Japanese typewriter

A typist uses a Japanese typewriter
An example of the arrangement of characters for a Japanese typewriter (1935), arranged in Iroha order. Kanji are arranged based on their on'yomi.

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 later released their own typewriters.

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