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Hatsue
Hatsue (written: 初枝) is a feminine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese speed skater * Hatsue Ono (1898–2012), Japanese supercentenarian *, Japanese operatic soprano Fictional characters * A young girl in ''The Sound of Waves'' by Yukio Mishima * A young woman in ''Snow Falling on Cedars ''Snow Falling on Cedars'' is a 1994 novel by David Guterson. Guterson, a teacher, wrote the book in the early morning hours over ten years then quit his job to write full-time. Plot Set on the fictional San Piedro Island in the Strait of Juan ...'' by David Guterson {{given name Japanese feminine given names Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sound Of Waves
is a 1954 novel by the Japanese author Yukio Mishima. It is a coming-of-age story of the protagonist Shinji and his romance with Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the wealthy ship owner Terukichi. For this book, Mishima was awarded the Shincho Prize from Shinchosha Publishing in 1954. It has been adapted for film five times. Plot Shinji Kubo lives with his mother, a pearl diver, and his younger brother, Hiroshi. He and his mother support the family because Shinji's father died in World War II after the fishing boat he was on was strafed by an American bomber. However, the family lives a somewhat peaceful life and Shinji is content to be a fisherman along with his master, Jukichi Oyama, and another apprentice, Ryuji. Things change when Terukichi Miyata, after the death of his son, decides to bring back the daughter he adopted away to pearl divers from another island. Raised as a pearl diver, the beautiful Hatsue wins many admirers, including Shinji. Miyata wishes to adopt a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snow Falling On Cedars
''Snow Falling on Cedars'' is a 1994 novel by David Guterson. Guterson, a teacher, wrote the book in the early morning hours over ten years then quit his job to write full-time. Plot Set on the fictional San Piedro Island in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, just north of Puget Sound, in the state of Washington in 1954, the plot revolves around a murder case in which Kabuo Miyamoto, a Japanese American, is accused of killing Carl Heine, a respected fisherman in the close-knit community. Much of the story is told in flashbacks explaining the interaction of the various characters over the prior decades. Carl's body had been pulled from the sea, trapped in his own net, on September 16, 1954. His water-damaged watch had stopped at 1:47. The trial, held in December 1954 during a snowstorm that grips the entire island, occurs in the midst of deep anti-Japanese sentiments following World War II. Covering the case is the editor of the town's one-man newspaper, the ''San Piedro Review'', Ishma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hatsue Yuasa
Hatsue Yuasa ( Yuasa Hatsue, (22 June 1902 after 1943) was a Japanese operatic soprano. Life Born in the Prefecture of Tokyo, Yuasa was the daughter of the Marine officer who died at a young age (1871–1904) sowie der Sakae Yushisaki (1885–1923). After attending the Oberlyzeum in Tokyo, she studied singing at the Imperial Academy of Music in Tokyo from 1919 to 1923. Her teacher was the German-Norwegian musician Hanka Petzold. (1862-1937), former student of Liszt, acknowledged Wagner interpreter and wife of the journalist .Bieber, Hans-Joachim: ''SS and Samurai.'' IUDICIUM Verlag, 2014, , p., 49 (). From 1923 Yuasa continued her training with Ernst Grenzebach and Adolf Philipsen in Berlin. On 17 July 1926 Yuasa married the Berlin pianist Walther Carl Meiszner (real name: Meißner) whom she had met at her Berlin debut and who subsequently appeared as her piano accompanist. In 1929 the couple lived at Schloßstraße 53 in Charlottenburg; the marriage remained childless. Yuasa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hatsue Nagakubo-Takamizawa
Hatsue Nagakubo-Takamizawa (born 27 July 1935) is a Japanese speed skater. She competed at the 1960 Winter Olympics and the 1964 Winter Olympics The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games (german: IX. Olympische Winterspiele) and commonly known as Innsbruck 1964 ( bar, Innschbruck 1964, label=Austro-Bavarian), was a winter multi-sport event which was celebr .... References External links * 1935 births Living people Japanese female speed skaters Olympic speed skaters for Japan Speed skaters at the 1960 Winter Olympics Speed skaters at the 1964 Winter Olympics 20th-century Japanese women Sportspeople from Nagano (city) {{Japan-speed-skating-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hatsue Ono
Japanese supercentenarians are citizens, residents or emigrants from Japan who have attained or surpassed the age of 110 years. , the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of 263 Japanese supercentenarians, most of whom are women. As of , it lists the oldest living Japanese person as Fusa Tatsumi (born in Ōsaka on 25 April 1907), aged . The oldest verified Japanese and Asian person ever is Kane Tanaka (1903–2022), who lived to the age of 119 years and 107 days, making her the second oldest validated person ever as well. Japan was also home to the world's oldest man ever, Jiroemon Kimura (1897–2013), who lived to the age of 116 years and 54 days. 100 oldest known Japanese Biographies Denzo Ishizaki was an elementary school teacher and town assembly member in his hometown Kansago, Ibaraki Prefecture. At the time of his death, Ishizaki had been the world's oldest living man for almost 18 weeks, as well as the 9th oldest living pers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanji
are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script and 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 syllabic scripts of ''hiragana'' and ''katakana''. The characters have Japanese pronunciation, 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 World War II, Japan made its own efforts to simplify the characters, now known as shinjitai, by a process similar to China's simplified Chinese characters, simplification efforts, with the intention to increase literacy among the common folk. Since the 1920s, the Japanese government has published character lists periodically to help direct the education of its citizenry through the myriad Chinese characte ... [...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) * Japonicum * Japonicus * Japanese studies Japanese studies ( Japanese: ) or Japan studies (sometimes 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 Japan ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
