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Yoshida Shinto
Yoshida (written: 吉田 lit. "lucky ricefield") is the 11th most common Japanese surname. A less common variant is 芳田 (lit. "fragrant ricefield"). Notable people with the surname *Ai Yoshida, Japanese sailor *, Japanese idol, singer and model *, Japanese video game artist *, Japanese manga artist *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese rugby union player *, Japanese football *, Japanese singer *Asami Yoshida (other), multiple people *, Japanese rower *, Japanese artist *Baret Yoshida (born 1975), American mixed martial artist *Bill Yoshida (1921–2005), American comic book letterer *, Japanese puppeteer *, Japanese curler *, Japanese artist *, Japanese film director *, Japanese actor and singer *, Japanese javelin thrower *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese artist *, 17th-century Japanese ''ukiyo-e'' artist *, Japanese cartographer *, Japanese cyclist *, Japanese judoka and mixed martial artist *, Japanese music critic and literary critic *, Japanese actress *, Japa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Language
is the principal language of the Japonic languages, Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 123 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide. The Japonic family also includes the Ryukyuan languages and the variously classified Hachijō language. There have been many Classification of the Japonic languages, attempts to group the Japonic languages with other families such as Ainu languages, Ainu, Austronesian languages, Austronesian, Koreanic languages, Koreanic, and the now discredited Altaic languages, Altaic, but none of these proposals have gained any widespread acceptance. Little is known of the language's prehistory, or when it first appeared in Japan. Chinese documents from the 3rd century AD recorded a few Japanese words, but substantial Old Japanese texts did not appear until the 8th century. From the Heian period (794–1185), extensive waves of Sino-Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinami Yoshida
is a Japanese curler. She currently plays third for Team Loco Solare, which is skipped by Satsuki Fujisawa. The team won the bronze medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics and the silver medal at the 2022 Winter Olympics. Career Yoshida began curling at age seven at the Tokoro Curling Club in Kitami. During her junior days, she skipped a Kitami-based junior rink of Kaho Onodera, Yumi Suzuki, and her sister Yurika Yoshida. They became a sensation by winning two straight bronze medals at the Japan Curling Championships when they were only in their early teens. However, on the national junior scene, the Yoshida rink was usually lagging behind other Japanese junior rinks, such as Satsuki Fujisawa and Sayaka Yoshimura, and therefore never earned the right to represent Japan at the Pacific Junior Curling Championships or the World Junior Curling Championships. After her junior career, Yoshida joined Ayumi Ogasawara's Sapporo-based rink in late 2010, for which she mainly played l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hirofumi Yoshida
is a Japanese orchestral conductor. He resides in Italy, but grew up in Funabashi, Chiba, Japan. Education Yoshida's parents, his father Toru from Tokyo and his mother Ayako from Hokkaido, send their son to the “Kōnodai High School”. Later, following his passion, Yoshida attends the Tokyo College of Music, where he specializes in piano with professor Yukiko Okafuji, in contrabass with Mitsuru Onozaki, in musicology with Reiko Arima and Tomiko Kojiba and in conduction with Yasuhiko Shiozawa, Jun-Ichi Hirokami and Yujiro Tsuda. Between 1994 and 1995, Yoshida move to Vienna to obtain the Music and Arts Master at Vienna's University with the masters Hans Graf and Julius Kalmar. In 1996, he obtained the Advanced Music Master at the Chigiana Academy of Music in Siena with the masters Juri Temirkanov e Myung-Whun Chung Career In 2008, Yoshida conducted '' Don Carlos'' in Hong Kong. In January 2009, he was appointed music director at Teatro Sociale di Mantova, Mantua, Italy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hideko Yoshida
is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 14th Hochi Film Award for '' Shaso''. Filmography * '' Neo Tokyo'' (1989) * '' Shaso'' (1989) * ''The Pillow Book'' (1996) * ''Will to Live'' (1999) * '' By Player'' (2000) * ''Cutie Honey is a Japanese Shōnen manga, shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Go Nagai. First appearing in ''Weekly Shōnen Champion''s 41st issue of 1973, the series ran until April 1974. It follows an android girl named Honey Kisara ...'' (2004) * '' Heaven's Bookstore'' (2004) * '' Southbound'' (2007) References 1944 births Living people Japanese actresses Actresses from Kanazawa, Ishikawa {{Japan-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hidekazu Yoshida
Hidekazu Yoshida (; 23 September 1913 – 22 May 2012) was a Japanese music and literary critic whose career spanned the Shōwa and Heisei eras. Biography Yoshida was born in Nihonbashi, Tokyo. From an early age, he was interested in languages, and joined in club activities involving English and German when in high school. He was tutored in the French language by noted poet Chūya Nakahara, and corresponded with noted literary critics Hideo Kobayashi and Shōhei Ōoka while still a student. He later graduated from Tokyo Imperial University with a degree in French literature. His first work of music criticism was a series on Mozart, published in the magazine ''Ongaku Geijutsu'' in 1946. In 1948, he helped establish the Toho Gakuen School of Music together with fellow music critics and noted musicians; the school is now one of Japan's most prestigious music institutions. He made frequent appearances on radio, and later on television, providing commentary on classical m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hidehiko Yoshida
is a Japanese gold-medalist judoka and retired mixed martial arts, mixed martial artist. He is a longtime veteran of Japan's PRIDE Fighting Championships, competing in the Light Heavyweight (MMA), middleweight (93kg) and Heavyweight (MMA), heavyweight divisions. He won gold at the Judo at the 1992 Summer Olympics, 1992 Summer Olympic Games at Judo at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 78 kg, 78 kg. Yoshida also had two famous fights with MMA pioneer Royce Gracie that resulted in a no-contest and a time-limit draw. Judo career Yoshida first came onto the judo scene at the 1991 World Judo Championships in Barcelona, taking third place at 78 kg. He then took gold in the 1991 All Japan Judo Championships and 1992 A-Tournament in Sofia before entering the Judo at the 1992 Summer Olympics, 1992 Summer Olympic Games. He swept the competition in Barcelona, winning all six matches by Ippon en route to his first Olympic gold medal. He went on to medal in the 1993 World Judo Champ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayato Yoshida
is a former-professional Japanese cyclist, who last rode for UCI Continental team . Major results ;2007 : 1st Road race, Junior Asian Games : 1st Stage 5 Tour de l'Abitibi ;2008 : 1st Stage 3 Tour of Iran ;2009 : 1st Team time trial, East Asian Games (with Makoto Iijima, Kazuo Inoue and Kazuhiro Mori) ;2010 : 6th Overall Tour de Okinawa ;2011 : 1st Time trial In many racing sports, an sportsperson, athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial (TT) against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athle ..., National Under-23 Road Championships ;2012 : 3rd Grand prix de Ben Guerir, Challenge des phosphates ;2013 : 1st Stage 7 Tour de Taiwan ;2015 : 4th Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships References External links * 1989 births Living people Japanese male cyclists Sportspeople from Nara Prefecture {{Japan-cycling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hatsusaburō Yoshida
was a Japanese cartographer and artist, known by his bird's-eye view maps of cities and towns. Known as the "Hiroshige of the Taisho Era," Yoshida created over 3,000 maps in his lifetime. Biography Yoshida was born in Kyoto in 1884 as Hatsusaburo Izumi. His father died when he was a year old, so he adopted his mother's surname. At age 10, Yoshida became a textile designer apprentice, dyeing textiles for kimono. When he turned 25, he studied foreign painting with Masaro Kagiki, but turned to commercial art at Kagiki's recommendation. In 1914, his first bird's-eye view "Keihan Train Guide" was praised by Emperor Showa (then Crown Prince), who was aboard the Keihan Train on a school trip. The popularity of Hatsushiro's birds-eye view maps increased due to the tourism boom in Japan from Taisho to Showa era. Yoshida established the , which was later renamed . Yoshida visited the places which he depicted on maps, talking to people and studying popular attractions. In 1921, in comme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshida Hanbei
Yoshida Hanbei (吉田 半兵衛) was a late seventeenth-century Japanese illustrator in the ''ukiyo-e'' style, the leading illustrator in Kyoto and Osaka around 1664–1689. Unlike many more famous ukiyo-e artists, who worked primarily on individual woodblock prints and paintings, Hanbei worked primarily, if not exclusively, in illustrations for woodblock printed books. Alternatively known as Yoshida Sadakichi, his name is also sometimes romanized as Hambei. Hanbei was the first ukiyo-e book illustrator of Kansai, Kamigata to sign his works. One of the most prolific artists in early ukiyo-e, he produced work for at least ninety different books, amounting to over one thousand individual illustrations. His work appeared in a myriad of texts, including books of ''bunraku, jōruri'' puppet plays, Kabuki, novels, travel books, Buddhist subjects, musical texts, and courtesan critiques, among others. He is particularly famous for his illustrations of novels by Saikaku, and for his ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fujio Yoshida
was a Japanese artist. She was the first female artist among the Yoshida family artists. Early life and education Fujio Yoshida was the daughter of and , a Western style Japanese artist. Trained from an early age in the Western-style known as ''yō-ga'', she went on to create both naturalistic and abstract watercolors, oils, and woodblock prints. Her paintings of enlarged flower parts are sometimes, and perhaps incorrectly, associated with Georgia O'Keeffe’s work. Her parents had a family of four girls, but to begin with no son was born to carry on 's work as a Western-style artist. It was expected that a male heir was needed to carry on the family artistic tradition. As a result, adopted his most talented male student, , who then became known as . A few years later a son was born, but was so favoured by his adoptive father that he retained his status as first son. After died, enrolled his adopted sister in some of the best Western-style studios in Tokyo. Career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eri Yoshida
is a Japanese professional baseball player for the Japan Islanders of the Empire Professional Baseball League. She plays as a sidearm knuckleball pitcher. In 2008, at the age of 16, she became the first woman drafted by a Japanese men's professional baseball team.Schoolgirl knuckleballer headed to Japan pro league (AFP) Retrieved on November 17, 2008 Baseball career Yoshida was born in , where she taught herself how to throw the knuckleball at the age of 14 after watching |
Emika Yoshida
is a Japanese athletics competitor competing in the javelin throw. In 2007, she competed in the women's javelin throw event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics held in Osaka, Japan. She did not qualify to compete in the final. In 2004, she finished in 9th place in the women's javelin throw at the 2004 World Junior Championships in Athletics held in Grosseto, Italy. She won the bronze medal in the women's javelin throw event at the 2009 East Asian Games The 2009 East Asian Games, officially known as the V East Asian Games, was an international multi-sport event that hosted by Hong Kong, between 5 December and 13 December 2009. A total of 2,377 athletes from 9 east asia, East Asian national compet ... held in Hong Kong. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Yoshida, Emika Living people 1985 births Place of birth missing (living people) Japanese female javelin throwers World Athletics Championships athletes for Japan Japan Championships in Athletic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
