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Yaeko Hirayama
Yaeko is a female Japanese given name. People *, Ainu waka poet and evangelist. *, Japanese nurse, wife of Joseph Hardy Neesima *, Japanese actress *, Japanese novelist *, Japanese volleyball player *, Japanese woman kidnapped by North Korea * Yaeko Uehara, a geiko and Mineko Iwasaki is a Japanese businesswoman, author and former geisha. Iwasaki was the most famous geisha in Japan until her sudden retirement at the age of 29. Known for her performances for celebrity and royalty during her geisha life, Iwasaki was the heir ap ...'s older sister. References {{given name Japanese feminine given names Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Name
in modern times consist of a family name (surname) followed by a given name. Japanese names are usually written in kanji, where the pronunciation follows a special set of rules. Because parents when naming children, and foreigners when adopting a Japanese name, are able to choose which pronunciations they want for certain kanji, the same written form of a name may have multiple readings. In exceptional cases, this makes it impossible to determine the intended pronunciation of a name with certainty. Even so, most pronunciations chosen for names are common, making them easier to read. While any jōyō kanji (with some exceptions for readability) and may be used as part of a name, names may be rejected if they are believed to fall outside what would be considered an acceptable name by measures of common sense. Japanese names may be written in hiragana or katakana, the Japanese language syllabaries for words of Japanese or foreign origin, respectively. As such, names written in hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaeko Batchelor
was an Ainu waka poet and evangelist. Life Yaeko Batchelor was born on June 13, 1884, in Usu, Date City, Hokkaido. Her name was entered into the family register as , and her childhood name was Fuchi. Her father was , a member of a powerful Ainu family, and whose Ainu name was . Her mother was named . Among Yaeko's five siblings was the Anglican pastor . Yaeko's father deeply trusted the Anglican missionary John Batchelor, and allowed Yaeko to be baptized. However, when Yaeko was 11, her father died. When she was 13, she set out for Sapporo to attend the Ainu Girls' School that Batchelor operated, and later advanced to St. Hilda's School in Tokyo. In 1906, when Yaeko was 22, she was adopted by John Batchelor and his wife Louisa. January in 1909 Yaeko accompanied the pair on a trip to England, and was commissioned as a lay evangelist by the Archbishop of Canterbury. She pursued this mission in Biratori and Noboribetsu. In 1912, she went with her adopted father to Sakhalin to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yamamoto Yaeko
Niijima Yae (新島八重, née Yamamoto (山本); 1 December 1845 – 14 June 1932), also known as , was a Japanese educator, nurse, and scholar during the Bakumatsu and Meiji era. Her samurai family belonged to the Hoshina clan, loyal to the Tokugawa Shogunate. Skilled in gunnery, she helped defend the Aizu Domain during the Boshin War, earning her the nicknames “Nightingale of Japan” and “Bakumatsu Joan of Arc”. Yaeko served as a nurse during the Russo-Japanese War and Sino-Japanese War, and became the first woman outside of Imperial House of Japan after the Meiji Restoration (originated in 1870s) to be decorated for her service to the country. She was famously known as the wife of Joseph Hardy Neesima, the founder of Doshisha English School in 1875, and with a help of American missionary Alice J. Starkweather, they co-founded the Doshisha Girls’ School a year later. Early life Yamamoto Yae was born the daughter of Yamamoto Gonpachi, a samurai and one of the o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Hardy Neesima
(born ; 12 February 1843 – 23 January 1890), better known by his English name Joseph Hardy Neesima, was a Japanese Protestant missionary and educator of the Meiji era who founded Doshisha English School (later Doshisha University). He was the husband of Yamamoto Yaeko, a former soldier and nurse who served during the Boshin War, Russo-Japanese and Sino-Japanese War, who later founded Doshisha Girls' School. Early life He was born in Edo (present-day Tokyo), the son of a retainer of the Itakura clan of Annaka. His childhood name was . He attended Tokugawa Naval School from 1861. In 1864, laws on national isolation were still in effect in Japan, and Japanese people were not permitted to travel overseas without government permission. However, Niijima had read extensively on various rangaku topics, and was determined to come to America. At the age of 21, he entreated Captain William T. Savory, of Salem, Massachusetts, commander of the brig ''Berlin'', for safe passag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaeko Mizutani
Yaeko Mizutani I (1 August 1905 – 1 October 1979) (水谷八重子 in Japanese, or しょだい みずたに やえこ in kana) was "grande dame of the Japanese stage" and in film from the 1920s through the 1970s. Mizutani's daughter is also an actress called Yaeko Mizutani, so the elder Mizutani is sometimes referred to with an "I" after her name. Early life Mizutani was born in Kagurazaka, Tokyo, daughter of Toyozo and Tome Matsuno. Her father was a watchmaker who died when Yaeko was a small child. She was raised in the household of her older sister and her brother-in-law, writer , whose family name she also used. She attended Futaba Girls' High School. Career Theatre Mizutani began acting in plays as a child. She formed an outdoor theatre company with as a young woman, and she was active in several experimental and artistic theatre companies in the mid-1920s. There is an audio recording of her performing in 1929, in ''Shishi ni Kuwareru Onna'' (''The Woman Eaten b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaeko Nogami
was the pen-name of a novelist of the Shōwa period Japan. Her maiden name was Kotegawa Yae. Early life Nogami was born in Usuki in Oita prefecture as the daughter of a wealthy ''sake'' brewer. She was taught at home by private tutors, including Kubo Kaizo, who introduced her to classic Chinese literature, classic Japanese literature and taught her the art of writing ''tanka'' poetry. She met the novelist Kinoshita Naoe, who persuaded her to enter the Meiji-Jogakkō, a Christian-orientated girls’ school in Tokyo. While a student in Tokyo, she met Nogami Toyoichirō, a student of Noh drama and English literature under Natsume Sōseki. They were married in 1906, but she continued to work towards literary recognition. Her first published work was a short story ''Enishi'' ("Ties of Love") in the literary magazine '' Hototogisu'' in 1907. Literary career In the 1910s, Nogami submitted poems and short stories to the mainstream literary journal '' Chuo Koron,'' ''Shincho'', a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaeko Yamazaki
is a Japanese former volleyball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and officially branded as Munich 1972 (; ), were an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. It was the .... She was born in Ōmuta. In 1972 she was part of the Japanese team which won the silver medal in the Olympic tournament. She played two matches. External links profile 1950 births Living people Japanese women's volleyball players Olympic volleyball players for Japan Volleyball players at the 1972 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Japan Olympic medalists in volleyball People from Ōmuta, Fukuoka Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics 20th-century Japanese sportswomen Volleyball players from Fukuoka Prefecture {{Japan-volleyball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaeko Taguchi
is a Japanese citizen, one of several kidnapped by North Korea in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Abduction Taguchi worked as a bar hostess in Tokyo, Japan, to raise her two children, a one-year-old son and three-year-old daughter, after divorcing her husband. She disappeared in June 12, 1978, at the age of 22, after dropping her children off at a day care centre. She was forced to help teach Japanese to North Korean spy Kim Hyon-hui, who was the only surviving bomber of Korean Air Flight 858.Suspected Abduction Cases by North Korea "Lee Un Hae" Case National Police Agency 警察庁 In 2002, North K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mineko Iwasaki
is a Japanese businesswoman, author and former geisha. Iwasaki was the most famous geisha in Japan until her sudden retirement at the age of 29. Known for her performances for celebrity and royalty during her geisha life, Iwasaki was the heir apparent () to her geisha house () while she was just a young apprentice. American author Arthur Golden interviewed her for background information when writing his 1997 book, '' Memoirs of a Geisha''. Iwasaki later regretted interviewing for Golden, having cited a breach of confidentiality, and later sued and settled out of court with Golden for the parallelism between his book and her life. In 2002, she released her own autobiography, titled ''Geisha of Gion'' in the UK and ''Geisha: A Life'' in the US. Life and career Iwasaki was born as Masako Tanaka to Shigezo and Chie (née Akamatsu) Tanaka. She had ten siblings: brothers Seiichiro, Ryozo, Kozo, Fumio, and sisters Yaeko, Kikuko, Kuniko, Yoshiko, Tomiko, Yukiko. She left home at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Feminine Given Names
Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspora, Japanese emigrants and their descendants around the world * Japanese citizens, nationals of Japan under Japanese nationality law ** Foreign-born Japanese, naturalized citizens of Japan * Japanese writing system, consisting of kanji and kana * Japanese cuisine, the food and food culture of Japan See also * List of Japanese people * * Japonica (other) * Japanese studies , sometimes known as Japanology in Europe, is a sub-field of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on Japan. It incorporates fields such as the study of Japanese language, history, culture, litera ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
