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Suwa Morinao
Suwa or SUWA may refer to: Places * Suwa Province, an old Japanese province located in Tōsandō for a brief period of time, which today composes the southern part of Nagano Prefecture * Suwa, Nagano, a city in Nagano Prefecture, Japan * Suwa Shrine (other), the name of several Shinto shrines in Japan * Lake Suwa, a lake in the Kiso Mountains, in the central region of Nagano Prefecture, Japan * Suwa, a small ancient Egyptian site about 10 km south-east of Zagazig in the Nile Delta * Suwa, Diz, a historical Assyrian hamlet in Hakkari, Turkey Organizations * Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, a wilderness preservation organization in the United States based in Salt Lake City, Utah People * Michiko Suwa (1935-2015), the maiden name of Japanese-American marathoner Miki Gorman * Nanaka Suwa (born 1994), Japanese voice actress * Nejiko Suwa (1920–2012), Japanese violinist * Nobuhiro Suwa (born 1960), Japanese film director *, Japanese ''daimyō'' * Takahiro Suwa (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suwa Province
250px, Location of Suwa Province (721) is an old province in the area of Nagano Prefecture. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Suwa''" in . It was located in the Tōsandō region of central Honshu. According to the old history book ''Shoku Nihongi'', it was established on June 26 of 721 and abolished on March 3 of 731 (old Japanese calendar's date). Neither the location of the capital nor the exact border with Shinano is known. Historical districts Suwa Province consisted of three districts (originally two): * Nagano Prefecture ** Ina District (伊那郡): split to become Kamiina and Shimoina Districts ** Suwa District (諏訪郡) Gallery Image:Suwa Hotspring in Nagano Japan 001.JPG, Geyser in Kamisuwa (上諏訪), Nagano Prefecture See also * Lake Suwa *Suwa taisha *Suwa, Nagano Notes References * Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005) ''Japan encyclopedia.''Cambridge: Harvard University Press Harvard University Press (HUP) is an academic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tetsushi Suwa
is a Japanese writer from Nagoya, Aichi. He was awarded the 137th Akutagawa Prize in 2007 for ''Asatte no Hito'' (アサッテの人, "The person of the day after tomorrow"). Early life Suwa was born in Nagoya in 1969, and grew up both there and in Sendai. He graduated from the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Letters, Kokugakuin University in Tokyo. Writing career Suwa’s debut novel, ''Asatte no hito'' (, Lit. The Day-after-tomorrow Man, usually translated into English as “A Distracted Man”) gained him immediate interest, winning the 137th Akutagawa Prize for 2007. The novel was first published in the literary magazine ''Gunzo'', and won the magazine’s Gunzo Prize for New Writers the same year. Since then, Suwa has gone on to publish several other novels. Works Asatte no hito ''Asatte no hito'' (A Distracted Man) was Suwa’s debut novel. The title refers to the protagonist, an eccentric middle-aged man who is constantly distracted and lives his life outsi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Kenya to the south, South Sudan to the west, and Sudan to the northwest. Ethiopia covers a land area of . , it has around 128 million inhabitants, making it the List of countries and dependencies by population, thirteenth-most populous country in the world, the List of African countries by population, second-most populous in Africa after Nigeria, and the most populous landlocked country on Earth. The national capital and largest city, Addis Ababa, lies several kilometres west of the East African Rift that splits the country into the African Plate, African and Somali Plate, Somali tectonic plates. Early modern human, Anatomically modern humans emerged from modern-day Ethiopia and set out for the Near East and elsewhere in the Middle Paleolithi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tigray Region
The Tigray Region (or simply Tigray; officially the Tigray National Regional State) is the northernmost Regions of Ethiopia, regional state in Ethiopia. The Tigray Region is the homeland of the Tigrayan, Irob people, Irob and Kunama people. Its capital and largest city is Mekelle. Tigray is the fifth-largest by area, the fourth-most populous, and the fifth-most densely populated of the 11 regional states. Tigray is bordered by Eritrea to the north, the Amhara Region to the south, the Afar Region to the east, and Sudan to the west. Tigray's official language is Tigrinya language, Tigrinya, similar to that of southern Eritrea. The Tigray region had an estimated pre-war population of 7,070,260. The majority of the population (c. 80%) are farmers, contributing 46% to the regional gross domestic product (2009). The highlands have the highest population density, especially in Misraqawi Zone, eastern and Maekelay Zone, central Tigray. The much less densely populated lowlands comprise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siwa (beer)
Siwa (or Suwa) (), Amharic: ጠላ, is a beer originating from Tigray Region, Tigray. Traditionally home-brewed, ''siwa'' remains locally popular during social events, after (manual) work, and as an incentive for farmers and labourers. Thousands of traditional beer houses (''Enda Siwa'') straddle the Tigrayan urban and rural landscapes. ''Siwa'', the traditional beer of Tigray In almost every rural household of Tigray Region, Tigray, the woman knows how to prepare the local beer, ''siwa'' in Tigrinya language. Basic ingredients are water; a home-baked and toasted flatbread commonly made from barley in the highlands, and from sorghum, finger millet or maize in the lowlands; some yeast (''Saccharomyces cerevisiae''); and dried leaves of ''gesho'' (''Rhamnus prinoides'') that serve as a catalyst. The brew is allowed to ferment for a few days, after which it is served, sometimes with the pieces of bread floating on it (the customer will gently blow them to one side of the beaker). The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suwa'
Suwāʿ () or Soveh, if translated to English, is mentioned in the Qur'an (71:23) as a deity of the time of the Prophet Noah. And they say: Forsake not your gods, nor forsake Wadd, nor Suwa', nor Yaghuth and Ya'uq and Nasr. (Qur'an 71:23) Maulana Muhammad Ali of the Ahmadiyya community, adds the following commentary on the passage: The names of the idols given here are those which existed in Arabia in the Prophet's time, and hence some critics call it an anachronism. ..According to IʿAb, the idols of Noah's people were worshipped by the Arabs, Wadd Wadd () (Ancient South Arabian script: 𐩥𐩵) or Ved, if translated to English, was the national god of the Kingdom of Ma'in, inhabited by the Minaean peoples, in modern-day South Arabia. Wadd is mentioned once in the Quran as part of a l ... being worshipped by Kalb, Suwāʿ by Hudhail, Yaghūth by Murād, Yaʿūq by Hamadān and Nasr by Ḥimyar ( B. 65:lxxi, 1). The commentators say that Wadd was worship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strike Witches
is a Japanese media mix franchise originally created by Fumikane Shimada via a series of magazine illustration columns. The illustrations have since inspired several official light novel, manga, and anime series and various video games. The series revolves around teenage moe anthropomorphic girls who use machines attached to their legs to do aerial combat. The original video animation (OVA) preview episode was released in January 2007. The televised anime series later aired between July and September 2008. A second season aired between July and September 2010. A film adaptation was released on March 17, 2012, and a three-part OVA series was released between September 2014 and May 2015. A third season aired from October to December 2020. A spin-off of the original series titled ''Brave Witches'' aired from October to December 2016, and a second spin-off titled ''Luminous Witches'' aired from July to September 2022. Plot On an alternate Earth during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suwa Yorishige (daimyo)
(1516–1544) was a Japanese samurai, ''daimyo'' (military lord) of Shinano province and head of the Suwa clan. He was defeated by Takeda Shingen, and his daughter Suwa Goryōnin (諏訪御料人, real name unknown) was taken as Shingen's concubine. She later gave birth to the Takeda clan heir Takeda Katsuyori. Suwa Yorishige fought Takeda Nobutora in the 1531 ''Battle of Shiokawa no gawara''. Suwa Yorishige was then defeated by Takeda Shingen was daimyō, daimyo of Kai Province during the Sengoku period of Japan. Known as "the Tiger of Kai", he was one of the most powerful daimyo of the late Sengoku period, and credited with exceptional military prestige. Shingen was based in a p ... in the 1542 Battle of Sezawa and the Siege of Uehara. Following the Siege of Kuwabara, he committed suicide. References 1516 births 1542 deaths Samurai {{Suwa Faith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suwa Yorimitsu
(1480–1540) was a warlord of the Shinano Province. The region that was controlled by Yorimitsu was Lake Suwa is a lake in the Kiso Mountains, in the central region of Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Geography The lake is the source of the Tenryū River. It ranks 24th in lake water surface area in Japan. The cities of Suwa and Okaya and the town of Shimos .... During the year of 1485, Yorimitsu's father was killed by his own retainers for unknown reasons. But Yorimitsu in the end was a very capable leader, greatly strengthening the domain of Suwa. References Daimyo 1480 births 1540 deaths Samurai {{Daimyo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moku Hanga
Woodblock printing in Japan (, ''mokuhanga'') is a technique best known for its use in the ''ukiyo-e'' artistic genre of single sheets, but it was also used for printing books in the same period. Invented in China during the Tang dynasty, woodblock printing was widely adopted in Japan during the Edo period (1603–1868). It is similar to woodcut in Western printmaking in some regards, but was widely used for text as well as images. The Japanese mokuhanga technique differs in that it uses water-based inks—as opposed to Western woodcut, which typically uses oil-based inks. The Japanese water-based inks provide a wide range of vivid colors, glazes, and transparency. History Early, to 13th century Woodblock printing was invented in China under the Tang dynasty, and eventually migrated to Japan in the late 700s, where it was first used to reproduce foreign literature. In 764 the Empress Kōken commissioned one million small wooden pagodas, each containing a small woodblock scroll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suwa Kanenori
Suwa Kanenori (1897–1932) was a Japanese painter and woodblock print artist associated with the sōsaku hanga ("creative print") movement. Born 1897, he spent his youth in Kobe, and started printing from the age of sixteen. In 1914 he moved to Tokyo to study at the Hongo Painting Institute. From 1920 his prints appeared in ''Yomigaeri'' magazine, which brought him to the attention of Un'ichi Hiratsuka, one of the leaders of sōsaku hanga movement, and Fukazawa Sakuichi whom he tutored in the craft. In 1921 he exhibited with the Sosaku Hanga Kyokai and in 1923 released his set of prints ''Suwa Kanenori surie awase'' (roughly translated as "Grinding the rough edges"). He became a member of the Nippon Sosaku Hanga Kyokai in 1928 and participated in the '' One Hundred Views of New Tokyo'' series, to which he contributed twelve prints, "notable for their spiky, stark quality." Un'ichi Hiratsuka, a friend of Suwa's who worked with him on the series, remarked that his prints had " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toshinari Suwa
is a Japanese marathon runner from Isesaki, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. Career He finished sixth at the 2004 Summer Olympics and seventh at the 2007 World Championships. His personal best time is 2:07:55, achieved in December 2003 at the Fukuoka Marathon. In the half marathon his personal best time is 1:03:00 hours, achieved in July 2003 in Sapporo. He also has 28:15.45 minutes in the 10,000 metres The 10,000 metres or the 10,000-metre run is a common long-distance track running event. The event is part of the athletics programme at the Olympic Games and the World Athletics Championships, and is common at championship-level events. The .... Achievements References 1977 births Living people Japanese athletics coaches Japanese male long-distance runners Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Japan Japanese male marathon runners People from Isesaki Athletes from Gunma Prefecture {{Japan-longdistance-athletics-bio-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
