Background
Inada Heibu was born in Yamato, Nara Prefecture, to a family of farmers.
Inada Heibu was born in Yamato, Nara Prefecture, to a family of farmers.
Showed talent for inventing things at an early age.
Also excelled in fortune-telling and astronomy. He took great delight in explaining natural phenomena to villagers, and even built a model to demonstrate the movements and characteristics of the solar system. Later invented a wooden pestle (about 1890) which soon became popular.