Tashiro Furukawa

Tashiro Furukawa (古河太四郎, Furukawa Tashirō; March 27, 1845 – December 26, 1907) was a Japanese educator. He was a pioneer of education for visual and hearing-impaired people in modern Japan, and has been called "the De l'Épée and Gallaudet of Japan".^[1] He initially taught at the Taiken Primary School in Kyoto and began teaching deaf students there in 1873. His teaching methods were published in a governmental publication several years later.^[2] He founded the Kyoto Moain (later Kyoto Prefectural School for the Blind and Kyoto Prefectural School for the Deaf) in 1878, and developed the origins of Japanese Sign Language.^[3][4]

Tashiro Furukawa

Furukawa was featured in a Google Doodle on March 26, 2015.^[5][6]