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Hibi (surname)
Hibi (written: 日比) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: * George Matsusaburo Hibi (1886–1947), Japanese-American artist *, Japanese politician * Hisako Hibi Hisako Shimizu Hibi (1907–1991) was a Japanese-born American Issei painter and printmaker who exhibited throughout her career, and by the end of her life she was well entrenched in the San Francisco Bay Area arts community. Early years Hisako H ... (1907–1991), Japanese painter and printmaker, wife of George Matsusaburo Hibi *, Japanese tennis player *, Japanese photographer {{surname Japanese-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Surname
Officially, among Japanese names there are 291,129 different Japanese surnames, as determined by their kanji, although many of these are Japanese orthography, pronounced and romanization of Japanese, romanized similarly. Conversely, some surnames written the same in kanji may also be pronounced differently. The top 10 surnames cover approximately 10% of the population, while the top 100 surnames cover slightly more than 33%. This ranking is a result of an August 2008 study by Meiji Yasuda Life, Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company, which included approximately 6,118,000 customers of Meiji Yasuda's insurance and annuities. References {{Names_in_world cultures Japanese names Names by culture Japanese culture Lists of surnames, Japanese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Matsusaburo Hibi
George Matsusaburo Hibi ( ja, 日比松三郎, June 21, 1886 – June 30, 1947) was a Japanese-American artist. He was most known for his oil paintings and printmaking. Life and career Hibi was born in Iimura, Japan on June 21, 1886, and attended university in Kyoto before he immigrated to the United States, in 1906. He studied law for a brief period in Seattle before moving to San Francisco in 1919, where he began submitting his drawings and cartoons to several California newspapers as well as Japanese publications. That same year, Hibi enrolled at the California School of Fine Arts. He eventually worked as a staff member, working in multiple capacities that included: gardening, custodian, sales clerk and as a teaching assistant, offering demonstrations on batik processes, and several other technical artistic skills, he offered demonstrations on the batik process. Hibi's art work was heavily influenced by Paul Cézanne's style of art, where he uses plains of color follow by sm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hibi Kimei
was Governor of Okinawa Prefecture The is the head of the local government in Okinawa Prefecture. The governor's official residence is in Okinawa Prefecture Government Building located in Naha, the capital city of the prefecture. List of Governors of Okinawa Prefecture (1879 ... (1908–1913).Jinji Kōshinjo, ed. "人事興信録 第6版" (Who's Who Volume 6), 1921, p.4. References Further reading * Hata Ikuhiko, ed. "日本官僚制総合事典：1868 – 2000" (Comprehensive Encyclopedia of the Japanese Bureaucracy), Tōkyō Daigaku Shuppankai, 2001. 1848 births 1926 deaths People from Mie Prefecture Governors of Okinawa Prefecture {{Japan-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hisako Hibi
Hisako Shimizu Hibi (1907–1991) was a Japanese-born American Issei painter and printmaker who exhibited throughout her career, and by the end of her life she was well entrenched in the San Francisco Bay Area arts community. Early years Hisako Hibi was born on May 14, 1907, in Torihama, a farming village located in the Fukui Prefecture, Japan. Hibi was born into a Buddhist family. She was the eldest of six children and stayed with her grandmother after her parents moved to the United States. She reluctantly moved to San Francisco, California, in 1920. After her father's business prospered, her parents returned to Japan, but Hibi stayed in the United States, graduating from Lowell High School in 1929. Hibi studied western-style oil painting at the California School of Fine Arts and participated in annual exhibitions at the San Francisco Art Association. She has exhibited with fellow artists including Elmer Bischoff, David Park, Karl Kasten, and Earle Loran, all of whom are reno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayo Hibi
is a Japanese former professional tennis player. She has won eight singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 3 February 2020, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 157. On 26 May 2014, she peaked at No. 378 in the WTA doubles rankings. Hibi won her first $50k tournament at the 2013 FSP Gold River Women's Challenger The 2013 FSP Gold River Women's Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the second edition of the tournament which was part of the 2013 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $50,000 in prize mone ..., defeating Madison Brengle in straight sets in the final. Grand Slam singles performance timeline ITF Circuit finals Singles: 13 (8 titles, 5 runner–ups) Doubles: 4 (1 title, 3 runner–ups) References External links * * 1996 births Living people People from Toyonaka, Osaka Japanese female tennis players Tennis people from California 21st-century Japane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuichi Hibi
Yuichi Hibi (born 1964, Nagoya City, Japan) is a Japanese fine art photographer currently living and working out of New York City. Biography Prior to moving to the United States, Hibi trained as a stage and film actor as well as a filmmaker in Japan. In 1988, Hibi moved to New York City, knowing very little English, to further his acting career. For him, the city was bleak, grimy and alienating, the New York of “ Taxi Driver” and “ Midnight Cowboy,” gritty films he had watched as a teenager in Japan. As an import he found himself to be a natural outsider to the culture he was trying to become a part of. He began making photographs and within that work he evoked a sense of longing and isolation and understanding of things that often are overlooked. He returned to Japan in the early 1990s to find everything he once had known had changed, himself included. He continued to photograph in Japan with a similar "film noir" undertone. These New York and Japan photos were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |