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Toshi (given Name)
Toshi is a masculine Japanese given name. It is also a nickname or shortening of several longer names. Written forms Toshi can be expressed with several kanji characters. Some examples: *敏, "agile" *俊, "talented" *利, "benefit" *年, "year" *慧, "wise" The name can also be written in hiragana とし or katakana トシ. Notable people with the name *, Japanese rower. *, Japanese composer. *, Japanese rower. *, American musician. Other people *Toshi Reagon (born 1964), American female folk/blues musician *Toshi Sabri, Indian singer and composer *Toshi Seeger (1922–2013), American filmmaker, producer and environmental activist *Toshi Sinha, Indian voice actress Fictional characters *Toshi (トシ), a character in the film ''Moon Child (2003 film), Moon Child'' *Toshi Tsukikage (月影 トシ), a character in the anime series ''Soar High! Isami'' *Toshi Yoshida (トシ・ヨシダ), a character in the television series ''American Dad!'' See also *, Japanese printmaker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Phonetic Alphabet
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standard written representation for the sounds of speech. The IPA is used by linguists, lexicography, lexicographers, foreign language students and teachers, speech–language pathology, speech–language pathologists, singers, actors, constructed language creators, and translators. The IPA is designed to represent those qualities of speech that are part of lexical item, lexical (and, to a limited extent, prosodic) sounds in oral language: phone (phonetics), phones, Intonation (linguistics), intonation and the separation of syllables. To represent additional qualities of speechsuch as tooth wikt:gnash, gnashing, lisping, and sounds made with a cleft lip and cleft palate, cleft palatean extensions to the International Phonetic Alphabet, extended set of symbols may be used ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toshi Yano
Toshi Yano is an American rock musician who plays bass and keyboard. He was a founding member of the Washington, D.C., hardcore band Battery (hardcore punk band), Battery, the New York hardcore band Violent Bullshit (band), Violent Bullshit, and Kapow!, a Brooklyn-based band. Yano also worked as a recording and mixing engineer. Kapow! was an eight-piece band, fronted by Yano, which included Tris McCall on keyboards and The Negatones frontmen Jay and Justin Braun. In 2005, the ''New York Times'' wrote that Kapow! was "old-fashioned, but frequently irresistible," featuring the "vocal harmonies and garage-rock riffs" characteristic of late-1960s pop music. They released a three-song demo recording, which included "In regard to the Children," "Girl," and "Make You Mine." Kapow! remained active into 2008. Yano was a touring member of The Fiery Furnaces from 2003 to 2005, playing bass and keyboards on world tours with the band. During that period, Yano temporarily joined Franz Ferdinand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tōshi Yoshida
was a Japanese printmaking artist associated with the '' sōsaku-hanga'' movement, and was the son of ''shin-hanga'' artist Hiroshi Yoshida. Childhood One of Yoshida's legs was paralysed during his early childhood. Not being able to attend school, he enjoyed watching animals and his father's printmaking workshop. Encouraged by his grandmother Rui Yoshida, Tōshi often sketched animals. Early artistic development Yoshida's artistic career was a long struggle between fidelity to his father's legacy and freedom from it. In 1926, Tōshi chose animals as his primary subjects to distinguish himself from his father, who was a landscape printmaker. However, in the 1930s, Tōshi started making landscape paintings and prints similar to his father's works. Father and son traveled together and even painted side by side. From 1930 to 1931, Hiroshi and Tōshi traveled to India, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Burma. In 1940 he married Kiso Yoshida (née Katsura) and they soo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Dad!
''American Dad!'' is an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane, Mike Barker (producer), Mike Barker and Matt Weitzman for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series premiered on February 6, 2005, following Super Bowl XXXIX, with the rest of the American Dad! (season 1), first season airing from May 1 of the same year. The show centers around the List of American Dad! characters, Smiths, a dysfunctional family consisting of parents Stan Smith (American Dad!), Stan and Francine Smith, Francine, their children, Hayley Smith (American Dad!), Hayley and Steve Smith (American Dad!), Steve, as well as a goldfish named Klaus Heisler, Klaus and an Extraterrestrial life, extraterrestrial named Roger (American Dad!), Roger. In the 100 A.D. (American Dad!), seventh season, Hayley's boyfriend (turned husband) Jeff Fischer (American Dad!), Jeff Fischer joined the main cast, followed by Rogu (American Dad!), Rogu, Roger's neoplasm, neoplastic son who joined in American Dad! (season 15 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soar High! Isami
is an anime series made by Group TAC and directed by Gisaburō Sugii. The anime is based on ''The Hakkenden'' but is set in the future. The anime was broadcast on NHK between April 8, 1995 and March 30, 1996. It was licensed by Hirameki International in the USA. The NHK Enterprises export catalog calls it ''Isami's Incredible Shinsen Squad''. Plot Isami Hanaoka is just a fifth grader who happens to be a descendant of the Shinsengumi. Together with fellow descendants and classmates Soushi Yukimi and Toshi Tsukikage, she discovers strange artifacts in the basement of her home, left behind by their ancestors, as well as a message urging them to "fight the evil Kurotengu organization". Characters Main Characters * Isami Hanaoka: 11 years old, after living all her life in the United States she moved to Oedo elementary school in Japan. The disappearance of her father is the reason why he covered his face in bandages, black sunglasses, a hat and coat in order to prevent his own iden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moon Child (2003 Film)
''Moon Child'' is a 2003 Japanese science fantasy horror action film starring Gackt, Hyde, and Leehom Wang. It was released on April 19 in Japan, and screened on May 13 at the Cannes Film Festival and on April 12, 2004, at Philadelphia Film Festival. In November 2023 for its 20th anniversary it was re-screened nationwide in Japan. The movie's story is adaptation of Gackt's original story related to his "Moon Saga" concept. Although the original story is about a vampire and his friends, it "reverses the concept of marginalised Asians living illegally in Japan to that of a group of marginalised Japanese renegades hiding out in a fictional futuristic city on the Asian mainland, named Maleppa, following Japan's economic collapse in the opening decades of the 21st Century". Plot In the year 2014, Japan suffers a major economic collapse and people are forced to emigrate to mainland China. The movie introduced the story with two vampires, Kei and Luka, of whom the first was probably mad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toshi Sinha
Toshi Sinha (Hindi: ''Tōśī Sinhā''), is an Indian voice actress who specializes for dubbing foreign productions as a self-employed freelance dubbing artist. Dubbing career She has dubbed for South Indian film and Hollywood actresses. Her foreign content that would go on Discovery Channel, Disney Channel, Cartoon Network, Pogo, Nickelodeon and UTV. She is the Hindi voice of Robin Wright as Claire Underwood in ''House of Cards''. Dubbing roles Live action television series Animated series Indian animated series Live action films Indian films Hollywood films Animated films See also *List of Indian dubbing artists A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ... References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sinha, Toshi Actresses from Mumbai Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toshi Seeger
Toshi Seeger (born Toshi Aline Ohta; July 1, 1922 – July 9, 2013) was an American filmmaker, producer and environmental activist. A filmmaker who specialized in the subject of folk music, her credits include the 1966 film '' Afro-American Work Songs in a Texas Prison'' and the Emmy Award-winning documentary '' Pete Seeger: The Power of Song'', released through PBS in 2007. In 1966, Seeger and her husband, folk-singer Pete Seeger, co-founded the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, which seeks to protect the Hudson River and surrounding wetlands. Additionally, they co-founded the Clearwater Festival (officially known as The Great Hudson River Revival), a major music festival held annually at Croton Point Park in Westchester County, New York. Early and personal life Toshi Seeger was born Toshi Aline Ohta on July 1, 1922, in Munich. Her mother, Virginia Harper Berry, was an American originally from Washington, D.C., while her father, Takashi Ohta, was a Japanese exile from Shikoku. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toshi Sabri
Toshi Sabri is an Indian singer and music composer. He gained fame with the song "Maahi" from the 2009 Bollywood Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, is primarily produced in Mumbai. The popular term Bollywood is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (former name of Mumbai) and "Cinema of the United States, Hollywood". The in ... film '' Raaz: The Mystery Continues''. Background He appeared on Reality TV show singing contests '' Amul STAR Voice of India'' (Fourth Position), " Ustaadon Ka Ustaad" and " Jo Jeeta Wohi Super Star". His younger brother Sharib Sabri is also a singer. Discography As Singer As a music director with Shaarib Sabri Film Single * Saanson Ki Mala (2018) * Dilla Ther Ja (2019) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Sabri, Toshi Indian Muslims Living people 21st-century Indian singers 21st-century Indian male singers Year of birth missing (living people) Chishti-Sabiris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toshi Reagon
Toshi Reagon (born January 27, 1964) is an American musician of folk, blues, gospel, rock and funk, as well as a composer, curator, and producer. Early life Born January 27, 1964 in Atlanta, Georgia, Reagon grew up with her parents Bernice Johnson Reagon and Cordell Hull Reagon, as well as her younger brother Kwan Tauna Reagon. Reagon grew up in Washington, D.C. She was raised by musician parents active in the civil rights movement. Her mother, Bernice Johnson Reagon, founded the all-woman a cappella group Sweet Honey in the Rock in 1973, which had a profound influence on her. Her father, Cordell Hull Reagon, was a leader of the civil rights movement in Albany (Georgia) and member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Her parents were also part of the civil rights musical group The Freedom Singers. Reagon lists 1970's rock and roll bands such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Kiss, as well as classic Blues musicians such as Big Mama Thornton, Howlin' Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toshi Sano
(born c.1911) was a Japanese rower. He competed in the men's eight event at the 1932 Summer Olympics The 1932 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the X Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1932) were an international multi-sport event held from July 30 to August 14, 1932, in Los Angeles, California, United States. The Games were held du .... References External links * Year of birth uncertain Year of death missing Japanese male rowers Olympic rowers for Japan Rowers at the 1932 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing {{Japan-rowing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanji
are logographic Chinese characters, adapted from Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script, used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still used, along with the subsequently-derived Syllabary, syllabic scripts of and . The characters have Japanese pronunciations; most have two, with one based on the Chinese sound. A few characters were invented in Japan by constructing character components derived from other Chinese characters. After the Meiji Restoration, Japan made its own efforts to simplify the characters, now known as , by a process similar to China's simplified Chinese characters, simplification efforts, with the intention to increase literacy among the general public. Since the 1920s, the Japanese government has published character lists periodically to help direct the education of its citizenry through the myriad Chinese characters that exist. There are nearly 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
