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Kikuko Okajima
Kikuko (written: 喜久子, 伎共子 or 記久子) is a feminine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese singer and voice actress *, Japanese composer *, Japanese writer *, Japanese pianist, music educator and classical composer *, later Princess Takamatsu of Japan *, Japanese writer {{given name Japanese feminine 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] |
Kikuko Inoue
is a Japanese voice actress, singer and narrator. She has been part of the singing groups DoCo and Goddess Family Club. She is the founder and manager of her voice-acting company, Office Anemone. Inoue tends to play the " perfect girlfriend" or "motherly" role in many series, but has also played more sultry and provocative roles. Biography Inoue's vocal roles are usually female characters characterized as dignified, reserved, beautiful, kind, regal, mature or domestic. For example, Belldandy, a goddess who is kind, compassionate and skilled at domestic tasks. Kasumi Tendo is an older sister who has taken over domestic duties after the death of her mother, and who acts as a counterbalance to the more rambunctious members of her family. Notably, both Kasumi and Belldandy are almost parallels of each other due to their roles as domestics in a home which could explode into chaos at any moment. She also plays Rune Venus in '' El-Hazard'', a princess and leader of her country; as we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kikuko Kanai
was a Japanese composer and one of the first Japanese women to compose classical music in the Western tradition. Biography Kikuko Kawahira was born on the Ryukyu island of Miyako-jima, Okinawa, and studied voice at the Nihon Music School and composition at Tokyo Music School. She studied with teachers including with Taijiro Goh, Kanichi Shimofusa, Hisatada Otaka and Kishio Hirao. Working as a composer, she produced songs and orchestral music using the Ryukyuan pentatonic scale. In 1954 she studied the dodecaphonic method in Brazil with Hans-Joachim Koellreutter Hans-Joachim Koellreutter (2 September 1915 – 13 September 2005) was a Brazilian composer, teacher and musicologist. Koellreutter was born in Freiburg, Germany and lived in Brazil from 1937 onward, where he became one of the country's most i ..., and incorporated atonal composition into her work. She was awarded the Mainichi Prize for Cultural Publication in 1955, and a prize by the Okinawan government for her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kikuko Kawakami
was a Japanese writer active during the Shōwa period of Japan. Her maiden name was Shinoda Kikuko. Biography Kawakami Kikuko was born in Shizuoka Prefecture. She graduated from Heijo Higher Girls' School and from the vocational course at Yamawaki Higher Girls’ School. In 1924 she accompanied her husband to Korea, then under Japanese rule, and lived there until 1931. In 1927, the Osaka ''Asahi Shimbun'' awarded her a prize for her novel, ''Aru Minikui Biganjutsu-shi'' ("An Ugly Beautician"), which it then ran as a serialized novel in the newspaper. After her return to Japan in 1931, she and her retired husband moved to Kamakura, Kanagawa prefecture, so that she could receive medical treatment for an illness contracted in Korea. In 1942, she visited the Philippines to report on field propaganda efforts and to tour the islands. She returned in 1943. She continued to live in Kamakura until her death in 1985. While living in Kamakura, she had the opportunity to make the acq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kikuko Masumoto
is a Japanese pianist, music educator, composer, and ethnomusicologist. Biography She was born in Japan and studied music at the Toho Gakuen School of Music and the University of Tokyo. After completing her education, she took a position teaching music at Toho Gakuen. Works Masumoto composes music for chamber ensemble, opera and voice performance. Selected compositions include: *''Pastorale'' for solo recorder *''Archaic Phrase'' for solo Chang harp *''Tapestry'' for solo harpsichord *''Ranjoh'' for solo flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ... References External links * 1937 births 20th-century classical composers 20th-century Japanese musicians 21st-century classical composers 21st-century Japanese musicians Japanese classical composers Japan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Takamatsu
, born , was a member of the Japanese Imperial Family. The Princess was married to Prince Takamatsu, the third son of Emperor Taishō and Empress Teimei. She was, therefore, a sister-in-law of Emperor Shōwa and an aunt-in-law of the following emperor, Akihito. She was mainly known for philanthropic activities, particular her patronage of cancer research organizations. At the time of her death, Princess Takamatsu was the oldest member of the Imperial Family. Early life Born in Tokyo on 26 December 1911, she was the second daughter of Yoshihisa Tokugawa (2 September 1884 – 22 January 1922), a peer, and his wife Princess Mieko of Arisugawa (14 February 1891 – 25 April 1933). Her paternal grandfather was Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Japan's last ''shōgun''. Her maternal grandfather, Prince Takehito Arisugawa, was the seventh head of the Arisugawa-no-miya, one of the four ''shinnōke'' or collateral branches of the Imperial Family during the Edo period entitled to provide a successor to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kikuko Tsumura
is a Japanese writer from Osaka. She has won numerous Japanese literary awards, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Noma Literary New Face Prize, the Dazai Osamu Prize, the Kawabata Yasunari Prize, and the Oda Sakunosuke Prize. Early life and education Tsumura was born in Osaka, Japan in 1978. While commuting to school she read science fiction novels, especially the work of William Gibson, Philip K. Dick, and Kurt Vonnegut, and began writing her own novel, ''Man'ītā'' (''Maneater''), while still a third-year university student. ''Man'ītā'' won the 21st Dazai Osamu Prize and was later published in book form under the title ''Kimi wa eien ni soitsura yori wakai''. Career In her first job out of college, Tsumura experienced workplace harassment and quit after ten months to retrain and find another position, an experience that inspired her to write stories about young workers. In 2008 Tsumura won the Noma Literary New Face Prize for her book ''Myūjikku buresu yū!!'' (' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
