In 1867, the future inventor, industrialist and founder of the Toyota empire, Toyoda Sakichi, was born in a poor village in central Honshu, the oldest of three brothers.When he wasnt working in his fathers carpentry business, young Sakichi spent his free time lost deep within the pages of Saigoku Risshi hen, a wildly-popular translation of Self-Help by Samuel Smiles (the bible of mid-Victorian liberalism). Richards reincarnation One story in particular that of Sir Richard Arkwright, an
