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Mizoguchi Naokiyo
Mizoguchi (written: 溝口 lit. "gutter/drain entrance") is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Hajime Mizoguchi, musician *, Japanese samurai and ''daimyō'' * Kazuhiro Mizoguchi, javelin thrower * Kenji Mizoguchi, filmmaker *Koji Mizoguchi (born in 1963), Japanese archaeologist *, Japanese ''daimyō'' *, Japanese ''daimyō'' * Noriko Mizoguchi, Japanese judoka Fictional characters * Hiroshi Mizoguchi, ''Hikaru no Go'' * Mizoguchi Makoto, ''Fighter's History'' * The main character of Yukio Mishima's novel ''Kinkaku-ji , officially named , is a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan and a tourist attraction. It is designated as a World Heritage Site, a National Special Historic Site, a National Special Landscape, and one of the 17 Historic Monuments of Ancient K ...'' {{surname Japanese-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hajime Mizoguchi
is a Japanese cellist and composer. Mizoguchi started playing piano at the age of 3, and the cello at the age of 11. From 1978–1985 he attended the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music where he majored in violoncello. In 1986, he released his first album, ''Half Inch Dessert'', being listed as a composer, arranger, and performer. From then on, he has released over 20 albums including motion picture soundtracks. Career Mizoguchi is noted for his compositions for animation, namely, the soundtrack to the animated feature film '' Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade'' and a collaboration with Yoko Kanno on the animated series ''The Vision of Escaflowne'' and its subsequent film, ''Escaflowne''. He also collaborated with Keishi Urata on the animated series ''Texhnolyze''. In 2006, he composed the music for '' Tokimeki Memorial Only Love'' (along with Teruyuki Nobuchika) '' Jyu Oh Sei and the'' Fuji TV noitamina series . He composed and performed the opening and ending themes fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mizoguchi Hidekatsu
was a Sengoku period samurai and early Edo period ''daimyō'' of Shibata Domain in Echigo Province, Japan (modern-day Niigata Prefecture). His courtesy title was '' Hōki-no-kami,'' and his Court rank was Junior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade. Biography Mizoguchi Hidekatsu was the eldest son of Mizoguchi Katsumasa and was born in Mizobuchi village, Nakamura District of Owari Province, in what is now part of the modern city of Inazawa, Aichi. His childhood name was Take-maru (竹丸), and his post-''genpuku'' name was Sadakatsu (定勝). He entered the service of Niwa Nagahide as a child. By 1581, his talents had come to the attention of Oda Nobunaga, who accepted him as a direct retainer, and who granted him a 5000 ''koku'' fief in what is now Takahama, Fukui. In 1582, Nobunaga was assassinated in the Honnō-ji Incident and he transferred his allegiance to Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Following the 1583 Battle of Shizugatake, he was made a ''yoriki-daimyō'' under Niwa Nagahide and transfe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazuhiro Mizoguchi
is a Japanese former javelin thrower. He set the world best year performance in 1989, throwing 87.60 metres at a meet in San Jose, California San Jose, officially the City of San José ( ; ), is a cultural, commercial, and political center within Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area. With a city population of 997,368 and a metropolitan area population of 1.95 million, it is ..., United States on May 27, 1989. Initially, it was announced as a new world record of 87m86, 20cm higher than the previous world record, but the measurer re-measured it with a plastic tape measure and announced it as 87m60. International competitions References * 1962 births Living people Athletes from Wakayama Prefecture Japanese male javelin throwers Olympic male javelin throwers Olympic athletes for Japan Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Asian Games gold medalists for Japan Asian Games bron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenji Mizoguchi
was a Japanese filmmaker who directed roughly one hundred films during his career between 1923 and 1956. His most acclaimed works include '' The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums'' (1939), '' The Life of Oharu'' (1952), '' Ugetsu'' (1953), and '' Sansho the Bailiff'' (1954), with the latter three all being awarded at the Venice International Film Festival. A recurring theme of his films was the oppression of women in historical and contemporary Japan. Together with Akira Kurosawa and Yasujirō Ozu, Mizoguchi is seen as a representative of the "golden age" of Japanese cinema. Biography Early years Mizoguchi was born in Hongō, Tokyo, as the second of three children, to Zentaro Miguchi, a roofing carpenter, and his wife Masa. The family's background was relatively humble until the father's failed business venture of selling raincoats to the Japanese troops during the Russo-Japanese War. The family was forced to move to the downtown district of Asakusa and gave Mizoguchi's older s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koji Mizoguchi
Koji Mizoguchi (born in 1963) is a Japanese archaeologist and a professor of social archaeology in the Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies at Kyushu University. He studies the comparative emergence of societies in Europe and Japan and has a particular interest in the history of archaeology. He currently serving as the sixth president of the World Archaeological Congress, serves as director of the Advanced Asian Archaeology Research Center at Kyushu University, and is an elected fellow of the London Society of Antiquaries. He has been involved in numerous archaeological projects, and is currently a co-director (with Julian Thomas and Keith Ray) of the project ‘Beneath Hay Bluff: prehistoric south-west Herefordshire, c.4000-1500 BC.' Biography Koji was born in 1963 in Kitakyushu, Japan. After obtaining his PhD in archaeology from the University of Cambridge, in 1995, he became an associate professor in archaeology at the Kyushu University , abbreviated to , is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mizoguchi Naoatsu
was the 7th ''daimyō'' of Shibata Domain in Echigo Province, Japan (modern-day Niigata Prefecture). His courtesy title was '' Izumo-no-kami,'' and his Court rank was Junior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade. Biography Mizoguchi Naoatsu was the fourth son of Mizoguchi Naomichi, a ''hatamoto'' retainer of Shibata Domain from a cadet branch of the Mizoguchi clan. His childhood name was Kamenosuke. He was adopted as posthumous heir to Mizoguchi Naoharu in 1732 and received in formal audience by Shōgun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi the same year. In 1733, the clan was ordered to help repair the moats on Edo Castle. In 1735, the clan was ordered to survey and assist in land reclamation of the Shiunjigata marshes in Echigo Province, after which the clan was entrusted with administration of 16,850 ''koku'' of new ''tenryō'' lands. Although the domain suffered from fewer flooding disasters than under his predecessors, good harvests conversely drove the price of rice down, and the domain remained unable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mizoguchi Naoharu
was the 6th ''daimyō'' of Shibata Domain in Echigo Province, Japan (modern-day Niigata Prefecture). His courtesy title was '' Shinano-no-kami,'' and his Court rank was Junior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade. Biography Mizoguchi Naoharu was the second son of Mizoguchi Shigemoto and was born in Shibata. He was received in formal audience by Shōgun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi in 1694 and became ''daimyō'' in 1719 on the death of his father. In 1724, he was entrusted with the administration of 43,000 ''koku'' of ''tenryō'' lands in Echigo Province, and another 20,000 ''koku'' in 1729. Despite this addition income, the domain was unable to free itself from debt due to repeated flood disasters, and was forced to terminate the employment of some low-level samurai and to reduce the stipends of others. Naoharu died in Edo in 1732 at the age of 23. His grave is at the temple of Kisshō-ji in Tokyo. Naoharu was engaged to a daughter of Sakakibara Masakuni of Himeji Domain, but fell ill before t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noriko Mizoguchi
is a retired judoka from Japan. Overviews Mizoguchi claimed the silver medal in the Judo at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's 52 kg, Women's Half-Lightweight (52 kg) division at the Judo at the 1992 Summer Olympics, 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. In the final she was defeated by Spain's Almudena Muñoz. She also competed at the Judo at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's 56 kg, 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. References External links * * * * 1971 births Living people Japanese female judoka Judoka at the 1992 Summer Olympics Judoka at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic judoka for Japan Olympic silver medalists for Japan Sportspeople from Shizuoka (city) Martial artists from Shizuoka Prefecture Olympic medalists in judo Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics 21st-century Japanese women 20th-century Japanese sportswomen {{Japan-judo-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hikaru No Go
is a Japanese manga series based on the board game Go (game), Go, written by Yumi Hotta and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. The production of the series' Go games was supervised by Go professional Yukari Umezawa. It was serialized in Shueisha's ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from 1998 to 2003, with its chapters collected into 23 volumes. The story follows Hikaru, who discovers a Go board in his grandfather's attic. The object turns out to be haunted by a ghost named Sai, the emperor's former Go teacher in the Heian era. Sai finds himself trapped in Hikaru's mind and tells him which moves to play against opponents, astonishing onlookers with the boy's apparent level of skill at the game. It was adapted into an anime television series by Studio Pierrot, which ran for 75 episodes from 2001 to 2003 on TV Tokyo, with a New Year's Special aired in January 2004. Viz Media released both the manga and anime in North America; they serialized the manga in ''Shonen Jump (magazine), Shonen Jum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makoto Mizoguchi
is a series of fighting games that were produced by Data East during the 1990s. The original ''Fighter's History'' was first released for the arcades in 1993 and ported to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1994. Two different sequels were produced: ''Karnov's Revenge'' (aka ''Fighter's History Dynamite'' in Japan) for the Neo Geo in 1994, followed by ''Fighter's History: Mizoguchi Kiki Ippatsu!!'', released in Japan for the Super Famicom in 1995. The main unique feature of the ''Fighter's History'' series is its "weak point system". By repeatedly hitting an opponent's weak point, the player can temporarily stun them once per round, leaving the opponent open for an attack. The location of an opponent's weak spot varies with each character and is usually represented by a specific article of clothing (e.g. a headband, a vest, a mask). Games ''Fighter's History'' The original ''Fighter's History'' was released as an arcade game in March 1993. The game uses a six-button ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fighter's History
is a series of fighting games that were produced by Data East during the 1990s. The original '' Fighter's History'' was first released for the arcades in 1993 and ported to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1994. Two different sequels were produced: '' Karnov's Revenge'' (aka ''Fighter's History Dynamite'' in Japan) for the Neo Geo in 1994, followed by ''Fighter's History: Mizoguchi Kiki Ippatsu!!'', released in Japan for the Super Famicom in 1995. The main unique feature of the ''Fighter's History'' series is its "weak point system". By repeatedly hitting an opponent's weak point, the player can temporarily stun them once per round, leaving the opponent open for an attack. The location of an opponent's weak spot varies with each character and is usually represented by a specific article of clothing (e.g. a headband, a vest, a mask). Games ''Fighter's History'' The original ''Fighter's History'' was released as an arcade game in March 1993. The game uses a six-butt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yukio Mishima
Kimitake Hiraoka ( , ''Hiraoka Kimitake''; 14 January 192525 November 1970), known by his pen name Yukio Mishima ( , ''Mishima Yukio''), was a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, model, Shintoist, Ultranationalism (Japan), ultranationalist, and the leader of an attempted coup d'état that culminated in his ''seppuku'' (ritual suicide). Mishima is considered one of the most important Postwar Japan, postwar stylists of the Japanese language. He was List of nominees for the Nobel Prize in Literature#1960%E2%80%931969, nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times in the 1960s—including in 1968, when the award went to his countryman and benefactor Yasunari Kawabata. Mishima's works include the novels ''Confessions of a Mask'' and ''The Temple of the Golden Pavilion'', and the autobiographical essay ''Sun and Steel (essay), Sun and Steel''. Mishima's work is characterized by "its luxurious vocabulary and decadent metaphors, its fusion of traditional Japanese and mod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
