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Iwahashi (written: ) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *, Japanese writer *, Japanese field hockey player *, Japanese scientist and optician {{surname Japanese-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kunie Iwahashi
was a Japanese novelist. She was considered "the female Shintaro Ishihara". Biography Born Kunie Nemoto (邦枝根本), Iwahashi was born in Hiroshima. Her mother and father were both teachers and Christians. The family evacuated from Hiroshima to Saga, Kyushu two months before the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. Iwahashi's career began when she gained attention for her writing while attending Ochanomizu Women's College. Her short story "''Gyakukoosen''" was one of these early works. It was adapted into a movie by the Nikkatsu film studio. Iwahashi graduated in 1957 with a degree in pedagogical sociology. The same year, she was employed as a special feature writer for a magazine. Personal life She married in 1957 and had one daughter. Iwahashi's husband died of cancer in 1983. Awards * 1982 - for the short story collection ''Asai Nemuri'' * 1986 - for the novel ''Hanryo'' * 1992 - for the novel ''Ukihashi'' * 1994 - for her biography of Hasegawa Shigure * 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kunio Iwahashi
is a Japanese field hockey player. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics and the 1964 Summer Olympics The , officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honor was subseq .... References External links * 1939 births Living people Japanese male field hockey players Olympic field hockey players for Japan Field hockey players at the 1960 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 1964 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Tokyo 20th-century Japanese sportsmen {{Japan-fieldhockey-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iwahashi Zenbei
was a Japanese scientist and optician. Biography He was born in Kaizuka, Osaka, in a merchant family, became independent to be an optician, then was interested in natural science and learned scientific methodology and physics from Minagawa Kien, a scholar of ''I Ching'', in Kyoto Kyoto ( or ; Japanese language, Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu. , the city had a population of 1.46 million, making it t .... He observed movements of the sun, the moon, stars, and developed an instrument to calculate the movements of celestial bodies and tides called ''Heitengi'' (平天儀) in 1801 and wrote the theoretical book of astronomy called ''Heitengi zukai'' (平天儀図解) in 1802. Zenbei researched some imported optical instruments, then in 1793, made his first telescope. It had quite a good reputation then he made many telescopes of Galileo type and Kepler type, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |