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24.07.1884 in Tokyo
27.04.1963 in Tokyo

Lieutenant-General.
He was the son of Count Tokugawa Atsumori (1856-1924), head of the Shimizu branch. He graduated from the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1903, after having specialized in military engineering.
In 1909 the Japanese Army recognized the importance of aviation research. In 1909, Tokugawa Yo****oshi was sent as a military attaché to France, specifically to study aeronautical engineering and military applications for the use of aircraft in combat, to learn to fly and to purchase suitable airplanes. He purchased a Farman III biplane, which he shipped back to Japan. After he returned home the plane was assembled and glide tests carried out. On December19, 1910, Tokugawa flew Japan's first successful powered aircraft flight at Yoyogi Parade Ground where Tokyo's Yoyogi Park is now located. His 4-minute flight covered a distance of 3 km reaching a maximum height of 70 metres. His aircraft was a Henri Farman biplane. Henri Farman (1875-1958) was an early French aviator who subsequently made his name as an aircraft designer and manufacturer.
On April 5, 1911, Tokugawa piloted the inaugural flight at Japan's first permanent airfield in Tokorozawa.
Tokugawa Yo****oshi together with Hino Kumazō promoted the new technology to the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff and helped establish the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service.
On April 23, 1911, Tokugawa set a Japanese record with a Blériot, flying 48 miles in 1 hour 9 minutes 30 seconds.
Tokugawa led the 2nd Air Battalion, was Commanding Officer of the 1st Air Regiment, and was General Officer Commanding the Army Aviation Corps three times through the 1920s and 1930s. He served as Director of the Training Department in the Tokorozawa Army Aviation School, as Commandant of the same school and the Akeno Army Aviation School, and was later attached to the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff. In August 1935 he was promoted to lieutenant-general. He was in the active reserve from August 1939 and was recalled for command of the Imperial Army Aviation School in March 1944, before finally retiring.
In 1964 a bronze monument of Tokogawa Yo****oshi was unveiled in the Yoyogi Park created by the artist Ichibashi Toshio.


Chronology 19.12.1910 - Aviation

Birth of Japanese Aviation
In 1910, two Japanese Army captains went to Europe, learned how to fly, and brought to Japan a French biplane made by Henri Farman (1874-1958) and a German monoplane built by Hans Gustav Bernhard Grade (1879-1946).
At Yoyogi on 19.12.1910, at 7:55 a.m., Capt. Tokugawa Yo****oshi, then 26, took off in the biplane. Later that day, Capt. Hino Kumazō, then 32, flew the monoplane. These were the first official airplane flights in Japan.
It is, however, rarely mentioned that Captain Hino had made another flight five days earlier, on 14.12.1910, for 60 meters at an altitude of 10 meters. That flight and the two flights on 19.12.1910 were made at the Army's Yoyogi Parade Ground. The Army had bought the land in 1909 and completed construction of the parade ground on 05.07.1909. Yoyogi was outside Tokyo's city limits until annexed to the city in 1932 as part of Shibuya Ward. After the Pacific War, the Yoyogi ground was renamed Washington Heights and used for U.S. military housing. After being the Olympic Village for athletes in the 1964 Olympics, the buildings were torn down and the area became Yoyogi Park.
This area is now also referred to “Nippon koku hasshi no chi - Japanese Aviation Birthplace” and you can find a corresponding munument there.

TOKUGAWA Yo****oshi (1884-1963) had a long career in Army aviation, was made a baron in November 1928, became a lieutenant-general in August 1935, and retired in August 1939 but was recalled to active duty in March 1944 to command the Aviation Officer School.

HINO Kumazō (1878-1946) left the aviation service, commanded an infantry battalion at Fukuoka, and later headed a gunpowder manufacturing firm.

TOKUGAWA
Yo****oshi
徳川好敏
1884 - 1963






Henri Farman
Doppeldecker, mit dem der erste Flug in Japan stattfand.
Bi-plane used for the first flight in Japan.

HINO
Kumazō
日野熊蔵
1878 - 1946










Hans Grade - Mono-Decker


















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/ JAP / SA / MIL / 09.06.1878 in Kumamoto-ken
15.01.1946

Oberstleutnant.
Er war der Sohn eines samurai des Sagara Clans und nach seiner Grundausbildung besuchte er die Militärakademie. Nach dem Studium wurde er in der Infantrie, Division Technische Waffenprüfung, eingesetzt.
Er wurde nach Deutschland geschickt und studierte von November 1907 bis Januar 1908 bei der Luftwaffe Berlin Johannisthal. Sein Ziel war, Fliegen zu lernen und sich nach einem geeigneten Flugzeug zum Kauf umzusehen. 1910 kehrte er nach DE zurück und kaufte eine Eindecker-Maschine von Hans Grade (1879-1946). Dieser war ein deutscher Luftfahrt-Pionier mit einer kleinen Firma (im Vergleich zu Farman), die nach dem 1. WK mit der Herstellung von Autos begann.
Der Eindecker wurde nach Japan versandt, montiert und dann wurden Gleitversuche durchgeführt. Neben dem Flug von Tokugawa Yo****oshi fand am 19.12.1910 ein zweiter Flug von Hino Kumazō auf dem Yoyogi Paradeplatz mit dem Grade-Flugzeug statt. Dabei flog er 80 sec über eine Strecke von 1000 m in einer Höhe von 45 m.
Danach konzentrierte er sich auf die Entwicklung eines eigenen Flugzeugs und der Verbesserung der Flugsteuerung. Außerhalb der Luftfahrtbehörde war er als Erfinder tätig und erhielt ein Patent für seine Pistole M1908.
Er beendete den Dienst in der Luftfahrt und kommandierte ein Infantriebatallion in Fukuoka, später leitete er eine Schießpulverfabrik.
Die meisten Aufzeichnungen zu seinem Leben gingen im 2. WK durch die Bombardierung seines Hauses verloren.
Im Yoyogi Park wurde 1974 eine Bronze Statue von Hino Kumazō enthüllt, geschaffen vom Künstler Koganemaru Ikuhisa.

Chronologie 19.12.1910 - Luftfahrt


09.06.1878 in Kumamoto-ken
15.01.1946

Lieutenant-Colonel.
He was the son of a samurai of the Sagara clans. After his basic education he attended the military academy. After the study he belonged to the army infantry, Division of Technical Arms Investigation.
He was sent to Germany and studied from November 1907 until January 1908 at the Airfield of Berlin Johannisthal.
His purpose was to learn to fly and to search for and purchase a suitable airplane.
In 1910 he returned to Germany and bought a Hans Grade monoplane. Hans Grade (1879-1946) was a German aviation pioneer. His relatively small (compared to Farman’s) aircraft company folded towards the end of WW I, and he moved on to automobile production.
The mono-plane was shipped to Japan, assembed and glide tests were carried out. On December 19, 1910 a second flight after the flight of Tokugawa Yo****oshi took place at Yoyogi parade ground by Hino Kumazō. During the 80-second flight he travelled 1000 metres and reached a height of 45 metres.
Afterwards his power is concentrated on the development of an own airplane and the flight control.
Out of the aviation authority he was an inventor and he was granted a patent on his Pistol M1908.
He left the aviation authority and commanded an infantry battalion in Fukuoka. Later he headed a gunpowder manufacturing firm.
Most of his records were lost when Hino's home in Tokyo was fire bombed during World War II.
In 1964 a bronze monument of Hino Kumazō was unveiled in the Yoyogi Park created by the artist Koganemaru Ikuhisa.

Chronology 19.12.1910 - Aviation

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