Honma Munehisa
Merchant
Munehisa Honma was a rice merchant from Sakata, Japan who traded in the Dōjima Rice Exchange in Osaka during the Tokugawa Shogunate. He is sometimes considered to be the father of the candlestick chart, a form of technical analysis used in stock... Wikipedia
Born: 1724, Sakata, Yamagata, Japan
Died: 1803 (age 79 years)
Known for: Invention of the candlestick chart