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Person Of Cultural Merits
is an official Japanese recognition and honour which is awarded annually to select people who have made outstanding cultural contributions. This distinction is intended to play a role as a part of a system of support measures for the promotion of creative activities in Japan. By 1999, 576 people had been selected as Persons of Cultural Merit.Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan) ''Culture 2000''./ref> System of recognition The Order of Culture and Persons of Cultural Merit function in tandem to honor those who have contributed to the advancement and development of Japanese culture in a variety of fields, including academia, arts, science and sports. ''Yomiuri Shimbun.'' October 29, 2008. Persons of Cultural Merit [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatsuo Nishida
was a professor at Kyoto University. His work encompasses research on a variety of Tibeto-Burman languages, having made great contributions in particular to the deciphering of the Tangut language. Biography Born in Osaka, Nishida graduated from the Kyoto University Faculty of Letters in 1951. In 1958 he became assistant professor at Kyoto University. During his studies Ishihama Juntarō and Izui Hisanosuke had a formative impact on him.Yabu, Shirō 藪 司郎 (2014). “Professor Nishida, Tatsuo and the study of Tibeto-Burman languages.” ''Memoirs of the research department of the Toyo Bunko'' 72: 180. In 1958 he was awarded the Japan Academy Prize. In 1962 he received his PhD for his study of Tangut characters. In 1992 he retired as a professor. In 1994 he received the Asahi Award, and in 2005 the Kyoto Culture Prize for Lifetime Achievement. He died in Kyoto in September 2012. Nishida's approach, dubbed "philological linguistics" by Shōgaito Masahiro, involved the ling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motoo Ōtaguro
(January 11, 1893 – January 23, 1979) was a Japanese music critic. He is considered a pioneer of music criticism in Japan. Biography Early life Ōtaguro was born in Tokyo, on January 11, 1893. He was born into a wealthy family; his father was , an entrepreneur influential in the adoption of hydroelectricity in Japan. Ōtaguro had private piano lessons with . He graduated from . Career After graduating from high school, Ōtaguro went abroad to study economics at the London School of Economics from 1913 to 1914. He attended many concerts of contemporary music during his time in London. He became acquainted with works by English contemporaries such as Frederick Delius and Ralph Vaughan Williams as well as other European composers such as Claude Debussy and Alexander Scriabin. He went back to Japan in July 1914 for a summer vacation but was unable to return to London due to the outbreak of World War I. Starting his career as a music writer, he published his first two books in 191 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haruko Sugimura
was a Japanese Theatre, stage and film actor, actress, best known for her appearances in the films of Yasujirō Ozu and Mikio Naruse from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. Biography Sugimura was born in Nishi-ku, Hiroshima, Nishi-ku, Hiroshima. After the death of her parents, she was adopted at an early age by affluent lumber dealers, only learning much later that they were not her biological parents. (Sugimura reputedly claimed that she was the illegitimate child of a geisha.) Her adoptive parents took her to performances of both classical Japanese stage arts like kabuki and bunraku, and western ballet and opera. They also encouraged her to enroll at the Tokyo Ongaku Gakko (now Tokyo University of the Arts), where she failed the exams. She then joined the Tsukiji Shōgekijō (Tsukiji Little Theatre), Tokyo, in 1927, and later the Bungakuza theatre company, which she remained affiliated with from 1937 until her retirement in 1996. She gave her film debut in 1932 in Eizo Tanaka's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Rain (novel)
is a novel by Japanese author Masuji Ibuse. Ibuse began serializing ''Black Rain'' in the magazine ''Shincho'' in January 1965. The novel is based on historical records of the devastation caused by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Plot Black Rain is told through the diary entries of Shizuma Shigematsu and other characters during August 6–15, 1945, Hiroshima, and at the time of narration, Shigematsu and his wife Shigeko are the guardians of their niece Yasuko. They feel obligated to find a suitable husband for her, and by the start of the novel, three earlier attempts to arrange a match had already failed because of rumors that she had radiation sickness from exposure to "Nuclear fallout, Black Rain," radioactive precipitation that had fallen when the immense firestorm caused by the nuclear explosion Cloud seeding, seeded the clouds over Hiroshima, causing the radioactive material to fall back down as rain. Fear and disgust of radiation sickness and those who have it are two of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masuji Ibuse
was a Japanese author. His novel ''Black Rain (novel), Black Rain,'' about the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, bombing of Hiroshima, was awarded the Noma Prize and the Order of Culture, Order of Cultural Merit. Early life and education Ibuse was born in 1898 to a landowning family in the village of , now part of Fukuyama, Hiroshima. Ibuse failed his entrance exam to Hiroshima Middle School, but in 1911 he gained admission to Fukuyama Middle School. Fukuyama Middle School was an elite academy and was linked to eminent scholars. Fukuyama's teachers boasted about the school's pedigree, but Ibuse was unconcerned. Ibuse spoke of this school as following Western ideals; in ''The First Half of My Life'', he said that the school emphasized Dutch learning and French military exercises. Ibuse was made fun of at this school, and he avoided wearing glasses in an effort to avoid ridicule. Although Ibuse enjoyed the Western influences in his education, his grandfather arranged fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hideki Yukawa
Hideki Yukawa (; ; 23 January 1907 – 8 September 1981) was a Japanese theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1949 "for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces". Biography Hideki Ogawa was born in Tokyo and grew up in Kyoto with two older brothers, two older sisters, and two younger brothers. He read the Confucian '' Doctrine of the Mean'', and later Lao-Tzu and Chuang-Tzu. His father, for a time, considered sending him to technical college rather than university since he was "not as outstanding a student as his older brothers". However, when his father broached the idea with his middle school principal, the principal praised his "high potential" in mathematics and offered to adopt Ogawa himself in order to keep him on a scholarly career. At that, his father relented. Ogawa decided against becoming a mathematician when in high school; his teacher marked his exam answer as incorrect when Ogawa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naoya Shiga
was a Japanese writer active during the Taishō and Shōwa periods of Japan, whose work was distinguished by its lucid, straightforward style and strong autobiographical overtones. Early life Shiga was born in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, as the son of a banker and descendant of an aristocratic samurai family. In 1885, the family moved to Tokyo and Shiga given into his grandparents' custody. His mother died when he was twelve, an experience that marked the beginning of an obsession with and fear of death both on an individual and a collective level, and which stayed with him until his early thirties. At the same time, his relationship with his father became increasingly strained. One conflict resulted from Shiga's announcement that he intended to participate in the protests following the 1907 Ashio Copper Mine incident and his father's forbidding him to do so because part of the family's wealth was derived from a past investment in the mine. Shiga's imagination was inspi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenichi Tominaga
is a masculine Japanese given name. Written forms Ken'ichi can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *賢一, "wise, one" *健一, "healthy, one" *憲一, "constitution, one" *謙一, "humble, one" *建一, "build, one" *研一, "polish, one" *兼一, "concurrently, one" The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana. People with the name *, Japanese World War II flying ace * Ken'ichi Chen (建一, born 1956), Japanese chef and restaurateur * Kenichi Ego (賢一, born 1979), Japanese football player *Kenichi Endō (憲一, born 1961), Japanese actor *Kenichi Enomoto (健一, 1904–1970), Japanese singing comedian *Kenichi Fukui (謙一, 1918–1998), Japanese chemist *, Japanese ice hockey player *Ken'ichi Kasai (ケンイチ, born 1970), Japanese anime director * Keni'chi Kōbō (賢一, born 1973), former sumo wrestler *Kenichi Konishi (健一, born 1909), Japanese field hockey player *Kenichi Hagiwara (健一, born 1950), Japanese actor and lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiichi Sumikawa
Kiichi (written: , , , , , or ) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese politician *, Japanese equestrian *, Imperial Japanese Navy admiral *, Japanese politician *, Japanese mixed martial artist *, Japanese educator *, Japanese botanist *, Japanese politician and Prime Minister of Japan *, Japanese actor *, Japanese World War II flying ace *, Japanese painter and illustrator *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese swimmer *Matt Heafy, Matthew Kiichi Heafy (born 1986), Japanese-born American musician See also *''Kiichi!!'', a Japanese manga series {{given name Japanese masculine given names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroyuki Sakaki
is a common masculine Japanese given name. Written forms Hiroyuki can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: extensive, good fortune, spacious. , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . It is written in hiragana as and in katakana as . People with the name Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese manga artist *, Japanese mixed martial artist *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese writer *, Japanese sport shooter *, Japanese judoka *, Japanese linguist *, Japanese politician *, Japanese manga artist *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese boxer *, Japanese badminton player *, Japanese boxer *, Japanese golfer *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese video game designer *Hiroyuki Hamada (martial artist) (1925–2003), Japanese karateka *, Japanese sprinter *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese musician *, Japanese boxer *, Japanese politician *, Japanese dancer and record producer *, Japanese actor *, Japanese cross-country skier *, Japanese animato ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
