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Kinuko Ueno
Kinuko (written: 絹子) is a feminine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese volleyball player * Kinuko Y. Craft (born 1940), Japanese-born American painter and illustrator *, Japanese painter {{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] |
Kinuko Tanida
was a Japanese volleyball player and Olympic champion. She was a member of the Japanese winning team, , at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...."1964 Summer Olympics – Tokyo, Japan – Volleyball" ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on September 7, 2008) References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinuko Y
Kinuko (written: 絹子) is a feminine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese volleyball player * Kinuko Y. Craft (born 1940), Japanese-born American painter and illustrator *, Japanese painter {{given name Japanese feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinuko Emi
Kinuko Emi (江見絹子, ''Emi Kinuko''; born ''Ogino Kinuko'', 荻野絹子, on June 7, 1923, died on January 13, 2015) was a Japanese painter. Emi is best known for her abstract painting in bold colors featuring the motif of four classical elements (fire, air, water, and earth). At the 31st Venice Biennale in 1962, Emi's work was exhibited in the Japan Pavilion alongside that of four male artists, making her the first Japanese woman artist to be shown at the country's Pavilion. She had retrospective exhibitions at the Yokohama Civic Art Gallery in 1996, the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura in 2004 and Himeji City Museum of Art in 2010. Emi's works are in the collection of the National Museum of Art, Osaka, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, Yokohama Museum of Art, and Takamatsu Art Museum, among others. Emi's daughter, Anna Ogino, is an Akutagawa Prize-winning novelist and emeritus professor of French literature at Keio Universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
