鳥居 肇
Hajime TORII
昭和10年安城市生まれ。安城市在住。幼少時より木工加工、金属加工に興味が尽きず時間があれば鉄工場、大工現場まで観に行くような子どもだった。中学時代は、通学路の旋盤がある町工場での金属加工の「鉄が鉄を削る」不思議さとその華やかさに魅せられ、将来は旋盤工になることを夢見ていた。
昭和26年牧田電機製作所(現マキタ)に入社、旋盤工として研鑽を積み、モノづくりの楽しさと厳しさを経験。
平成7年退職。公民館長、町内会長、地域防災活動団体代表を歴任。地震体験の重要性に気付き、ポータブル型地震体験装置「こなまず」を発明。日本防災士機構防災士。
鳥居さんは、ご登壇から7か月後の2016年3月25日に永眠されました。享年80歳でした。 ご登壇時の元気いっぱいの笑顔が偲ばれます。 心からご冥福をお祈り申し上げます。
TEDx Talks:
「定年後は社会へ恩返し~わたしの自由時間の使い方」
Repaying the society after retirement — how to use my free time
もしあなたが今80歳なら、どういう生活を送っていたいですか?鳥居さんは定年後、地域の防災活動を通じて地震体験の重要さを痛感し、設置・稼働が極めて簡単なポータブル型地震体験装置を発明しました。80歳とは思えないバイタリティで、表情豊かに三河弁で定年後の生き方のアイデアを語ります。「こなまず」の実演もお楽しみに。
What kind of life do you want to have if you are 80 years old now? Mr. Torii talks expressively about an idea of the way of life after retirement with vitality not looking like 80 years old person. Please enjoy also the demonstration by the portable earthquake experience device, “Konamazu” which he invented 2 years ago.
80 years old born in 1935. Inventor
Since child time, his interest for woodwork or metalwork processing was not simple. He was a child who went alone to factory to stare carpenter or smith work. In junior high school time, he was charmed by the fact how “iron sharpens iron” with the turning lathe machine, and dreaming to be a lathe machine operator in future. Just after graduated, he joined Makita Electric Tool Co., and acquired study as a lathe machine operator. He experienced pleasure and strictness about manufacturing for 45 years. After retired, he successively held a public hall director, a chairperson in the town block, a representative of local disaster prevention activity group. Through those social activities, he realized the importance of the earthquake experience, and invented the portable earthquake experience device “Konamazu”(little catfish in Japanese).
We regret to inform you that Mr. Torii passed away on March 25, 2016. He was eighty years old. It is so sad for us that we can’t see his bright smile anymore. We never forget it. We extend our sincere condolences to his family.