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Hidemitsu Yamasaki
Hidemitsu (written: 秀満 or 英光) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese samurai *, Japanese general *, Japanese writer {{given name Japanese masculine given names ... [...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] |
Akechi Hidemitsu
was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period. A senior retainer of Oda Nobunaga's vassal Akechi Mitsuhide, he served Mitsuhide until the latter's death in 1582 at the hands of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. He is also known as Akechi Mitsuharu. Early life and family While Hidemitsu's date of birth is not known for certain, he was born either sometime between 1535 and 1537, or as late as 1557. Hidemitsu was the son of Tōyama Kageyuki (lord of Myōchi Castle) and Miyake Takasada (lord of Hirose Castle in Mikawa Province). He first succeeded to his father, taking the name Tōyama Kageharu (common name Rokurōzaemon); then he succeeded to his mother's birth family under the name Miyake Yaheiji, and then, marrying one of Akechi Mitsuhide's daughters, took the name Akechi Hidemitsu. Service to Mitsuhide and death Following his marriage to Akechi Mitsuhide's daughter (who had been formerly married to Araki Murashige), Hidemitsu was deeply trusted by his master, and served in the vanguard of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hidemitsu Nakano
was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, commanding Japanese ground forces in the Southwest Pacific during the closing months of the war. Biography Nakano was born in Saga Prefecture, where his father was a former samurai retainer to Saga Domain. He graduated from the 24th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in May 1912 and initially served with the IJA 23rd Infantry Regiment. In November 1920, Nakano graduated from the 32nd class of the Army Staff College and was assigned to the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office. In May 1926, he was transferred to the staff of the Kwangtung Army, and was posted to the Harbin Special Agency, a military intelligence section based in Harbin in Manchuria. He subsequently served as a battalion commander in the IJA 63rd Infantry Regiment. Nakano rose to the position of bureau head of the Jirin Special Agency in 1931, and military advisor to the Manchukuo Imperial Army in 1935. In August 1936, he was promoted to colonel and in A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hidemitsu Tanaka
was a novelist of the ''Buraiha'' genre in Shōwa period Japan. His name was also pronounced "Tanaka Eiko" on occasion. Biography Tanaka was born in the uptown Akasaka district of Tokyo as the son of a historian; however, he was listed under his mother's maiden name of “Tanaka” in the family register rather than his father's surname of Iwasaki. He grew up in Kamakura and was a graduate of Waseda University’s School of Political Science and Economics. While still a student, he was influenced by his newspaper journalist brother towards a literary career, and towards membership in the Japan Communist Party. However, he was discouraged by the corruption of the senior leadership of the party, and left before graduation. Shortly after graduation, he met Dazai Osamu, who became his mentor. Also while still a university student, Tanaka was a member of the Japanese Olympic team to the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, where he participated as a rower. Although he competed in eight ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
