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Keibun Ōta
, real name , is a painter and illustrator born on November 10, 1951, in Haboro, Hokkaidō Prefecture, Japan. He is best known for his watercolor paintings of young girls and children. Ōta has multiple books in print which collect his works, and he has created illustrations for magazines, books, calendars, and posters, and has had multiple one-man exhibitions. He currently lives in Izu, Shizuoka Prefecture. Biography Ōta was born in Haboro, Hokkaidō Prefecture, Japan on 10 November 1951. He graduated from Hokkaido Bifuka High School. After moving to Tokyo to work as a freelance interior designer, he taught himself to paint and began doing work as an illustrator. In 1981, he won the Best Work Award at the 1st Poetry and Fairy Tale Illustration Contest sponsored by Sanrio. He won the 12th Sanrio Fine Arts Award in 1986. In 1992, Ōta held his first series of exhibitions at department stores in every major city in Japan. This has become a regular event since then. He held a nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haboro, Hokkaidō
is a town located in Rumoi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. As of September 2016, the town has an estimated population of 7,338. The total area is 472.49 km2. The town also administers the two islands of Yagishiri and Teuri. Haboro was officially designated a town in 1921. The villages of Teuri and Yagishiri were merged into Haboro in 1955 and 1959, respectively. Etymology The name of the town is from the Ainu language, but of uncertain origin. Haboro may have originated with the Ainu language word ''hapuru'', meaning "a soft sound", or ''haporopetsu'', meaning "the basin of a large river". In Japanese, the name of the town is written with ateji, or kanji characters used to phonetically represent native or borrowed words. The first, , means "feather" or "wings", and the second, , means "curtain" or "cloth". Geography Haboro faces the Sea of Japan. Much of the area of the town is within the Teshio Mountains, and much of the town is protected as a national forest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yokohama
is the second-largest city in Japan by population and the most populous municipality of Japan. It is the capital city and the most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a 2020 population of 3.8 million. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu. Yokohama is also the major economic, cultural, and commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area along the Keihin region, Keihin Industrial Zone. Yokohama was one of the cities to open for trade with the Western world, West following the 1859 end of the Sakoku, policy of seclusion and has since been known as a cosmopolitan port city, after Kobe opened in 1853. Yokohama is the home of many Japan's firsts in the Meiji (era), Meiji period, including the first foreign trading port and Chinatown (1859), European-style sport venues (1860s), English-language newspaper (1861), confectionery and beer manufacturing (1865), daily newspaper (1870), gas-powered street lamps (1870s), railway station (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Portrait Painters
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People From Hokkaido
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Illustrators
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Japanese Contemporary Artists
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1951 Births
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 15 – In a court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment. * January 20 – Winter of Terror: Avalanches in the Alps kill 240 and bury 45,000 for a time, in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. * January 21 – Mount Lamington in Papua New Guinea erupts catastrophically, killing nearly 3,000 people and causing great devastation in Oro Province. * January 25 – Dutch author Anne de Vries releases the first volume of his children's novel '' Journey Through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yōko Inoue
Yoko may refer to: People * Yoko (name), a Japanese feminine given name; variants include Yōko and Yohko * Yoko Gushiken (具志堅 用高, born 1955), Japanese professional boxer * Yoko Taro (横尾 太郎, born 1970), Japanese video game director * Madam Yoko (1849–1906), leader of the Mende people in Sierra Leone * Yoko Ono (小野 洋子, born 1933), Japanese multimedia artist and wife of John Lennon * Yoko Yamada (山田 よう子 or 山田 洋子, born 1979), Japanese female professional wrestler Places * Yoko, Benin, an arrondissement in the Plateau department of Benin * Yoko Commune, a commune in the Mbam-et-Kim department of the Centre Region in Cameroon Other uses * "Yoko" (''Flight of the Conchords''), fourth episode of the HBO television series ''Flight of the Conchords'' (2007) * "Yoko", a version of the song "Paradise" by Berner that appears on the 2014 reissue of ''The White Album'' * '' Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto!'' (2003), British animated series fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moe (magazine)
Moe, MOE, MoE or m.o.e. may refer to: In arts and entertainment Characters * Moe Szyslak, from the animated television show ''The Simpsons'' * Moe, leader of The Three Stooges, played by Moe Howard * Moe Higurashi, supporting character in ''Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon'' Other * , a Japanese slang term applied to characters in video games or anime and manga * Moe (band), often stylized as "moe.", an American jam band formed in 1989 * ''Moe'' anthropomorphism, a type of anthropomorphism in Japanese artwork * m.o.e., short for ''Master of Entertainment'', a Pony Canyon label for some of their anime works * ''Moe!'', a 1990 album by Raptori People * Moe (given name), including nicknames * Moe (surname) Places United States * Moe Lake, a lake in Minnesota * Moe Pond, a lake in New York * Moe Township, Douglas County, Minnesota * Moe Settlement, Wisconsin, a ghost town * Mobile (Amtrak station), Amtrak station code MOE, Alabama Elsewhere * Moe, Estonia, a village * Moe, Vic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Movic
is a Japanese company which specializes in the publication of trading cards, figures, CDs, and other general media related to the anime industry. Movic is a part of the Animate group. Anime involved in *'' Ah! My Goddess: The Movie'': Production *''Ai City'': Production *''Ai Yori Aoshi'': Production *'' Ai Yori Aoshi ~Enishi~'': Production *''All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku'': Production *'' All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku DASH!'': Production *'' Android Ana Maico 2010'': Production *'' Anime Tenchou'': Concept Work *'' Appleseed'': Production *'' Araiso Private High School Student Council Executive Committee'': Planning, Production *''Battle Angel'': Production *''Blue Seed'': Production *'' Blue Seed Beyond'': Production *'' Bounty Dog'': Production *''Chobits'': Production Cooperation *''Clannad'': Production *'' Clannad ~After Story~: Production *'' Crystal Triangle'': Production *'' Dengeki Oshioki Musume Gōtaman: Gōtaman Tanjō-hen'': Production *''Desce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hakusensha
is a Japanese publishing company. It is headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Chiyoda, Tokyo. The company mainly publishes manga magazines and is involved in series' productions in their games, original video animation, music, and their animated TV series. The company is owned by Shueisha; thus, it is also partly owned by Shogakukan. History Hakusensha was founded on December 1, 1973, by Shueisha. It is now a separate company although still a part of the Hitotsubashi Group with Shueisha and Shogakukan as one of the major members of the keiretsu. After setting up the company for five months, the firm published their first magazine, a shōjo manga magazine titled . In November that year, they moved from to . In 1975, the firm changed the frequency of their magazine from monthly to semi-monthly; in March, they created their first imprint (trade name), imprint, . In July 1976, they published their second manga magazine, a shōjo manga magazine named as a sister magazine to ''Hana t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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