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Komachi Maru
Komachi may refer to: People * Ono no Komachi (825–900), Japanese poet *, Imperial Japanese Navy fighter pilot ace *, Japanese diplomat and former Ambassador to Thailand. * Komachi is a ring name, used by various professional wrestlers in Japan :*Volador Jr., was the first to use the name. :* Místico took over the part after Volador (born 1982), Jr. :* Mike Segura (born 1969), who sometimes worked as "Komachi II" Fictional characters * Komachi Akimoto, a '' Yes! PreCure 5'' character * Komachi Onozuka, a ''Touhou Project'' character Places * ''Komachi'' (train), the name of a Japanese train service * Komachi (Kanagawa), a neighbourhood in Kamakura, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan * Komachi, Iran, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran * Komachi Ōji, is a street in Kamakura, Kanagawa Other uses * Kayoi Komachi, is a Noh play by Kan'ami Kiyotsugu * Komachi Sōshi, is a Japanese otogi-zōshi in one or two volumes * Komachi Monogatari, is a Japanese otogi-zōshi in two vol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ono No Komachi
was a Japanese waka poet, one of the ''Rokkasen'' — the six best waka poets of the early Heian period. She was renowned for her unusual beauty, and ''Komachi'' is today a synonym for feminine beauty in Japan. She also counts among the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals. Life Almost nothing of Komachi's life is known for certain, save for the names of various men with whom she engaged in romantic affairs and whose poetry exchanges with her are preserved in the ''Kokin Wakashū''. She was probably born between 820 and 830, and she was most active in composing poetry around the middle of the ninth century. Extensive study has gone into trying to ascertain her place of birth, her family and so on, but without conclusive results. The Edo-period scholar Arai Hakuseki advanced the theory that there was more than one woman named Komachi and that the legends about her referred to different people. This theory was later expanded to conjecture that there were four "Komachis"., citing I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Komachi (Kanagawa)
is a locality (a ) in Kamakura, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan, defined as the part of town north of the Ebisubashi bridge on the Namerigawa The is a river that goes from the Asaina Pass in northern Kamakura, Kanagawa to the beach in Yuigahama, for a total length of about 8 km. Although Yuigahama is in fact the name of the entire 3.2 km beach that goes from Inamuragasaki to ....Kamakura Shōkō Kaigijo (2008:60-61) The part of town south of the same bridge is called . Notes References * Kamakura, Kanagawa {{kanagawa-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sotoba Komachi (Mishima)
Sotoba Komachi (卒塔婆小町) is one of the stories in Five Modern Noh Plays by Yukio Mishima. The original work was written by Kanami and was later reworked by Mishima Yukio for modern theatre. The kanji 卒塔婆 means stupa and小町 is the synonym of belle or beautiful woman. The story was written in 1952 and published in 1956. It was translated by Japanese literature expert Donald Keene into English in 1957. Sotoba Komachi is the third story of The Five Modern Noh Plays. In relation to Sotoba Komachi by Kanami The original work, Sotoba Komachi written by Kan'ami, was originally a conversation between two priests and a 99-year-old lady at a Buddhist shrine. She later admits that she is Ono no Komachi (one of the six great ''waka Waka may refer to: Culture and language * Waka (canoe), a Polynesian word for canoe; especially, canoes of the Māori of New Zealand ** Waka ama, a Polynesian outrigger canoe ** Waka hourua, a Polynesian ocean-going canoe ** Waka taua, a Māori w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sekidera Komachi
{{nihongo, ''Sekidera Komachi'', 関寺小町, Komachi at Sekidera is a famous Noh play of the third category (plays about women) by Zeami Motokiyo. Its central character is a real life figure, the great 9th-century poet Ono no Komachi, who was also famed for her beauty. The play depicts Komachi at the end of her life, when her beauty has faded and she is living in great poverty. On the evening of the seventh day of the seventh month, during the Festival of Stars, the Abbot of Sekidera visits her in her hut, taking two priests and a child, so that they can hear her talk about poetry. During the course of their conversation, the abbot realizes her identity and is astonished and delighted. He invites her to come with them to the festival, but she declines. The child dances part of a ''gagaku'' dance for her, the ''Manzairaku''. Inspired, she starts to dance herself, and continues to do so until dawn. In the dawn light she ponders the transience of life, and her irrational shame at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Komachi Monogatari
''Komachi Monogatari'' (小町物がたり) is a Japanese ''otogi-zōshi'' in two volumes, composed late in the Muromachi period or the beginning of the early modern period (late 16th or 17th centuries). Date, genre and sources ''Komachi Monogatari'' was composed some time between the end of the Muromachi period and the beginning of the Edo period. It is a work of the ''otogi-zōshi'' genre. It is one of a large number of works, the so-called ''Komachi-mono'' (小町物), that draw on the legends surrounding the poet Ono no Komachi, a category that also includes ''Komachi Sōshi'', '' Komachi Uta-arasoi'', '' Kamiyo Komachi'' and '' Tamazukuri Monogatari''. It specifically combines the ''dokuro-densetsu'' (髑髏伝説), legends about Komachi's skull being found in a grassy field, ''hyakuya-gayoi'' (百夜通い), legends that the courtier Fukakusa no Shōshō tried and tragically failed to visit her for one hundred nights, and ''sotoba-komachi''. It is unique among the ''Kom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Komachi Sōshi
''Komachi Sōshi'' (小町草紙) is a Japanese '' otogi-zōshi'' in one or two volumes, composed during the Muromachi period. Date, genre and sources ''Komachi Sōshi'' was composed during the Muromachi period. It is a work of the '' otogi-zōshi'' genre. It is one of a large number of works that draw on the legends surrounding the poet Ono no Komachi, a category that also includes ''Komachi Monogatari'', ''Komachi Uta-arasoi'', ''Kamiyo Komachi'' and '' Tamazukuri Monogatari''. It specifically draws on the ''dokuro-densetsu'' (髑髏伝説), legends about Komachi's skull being found in a grassy field. Plot Ono no Komachi, the great beauty and '' waka'' poet, has grown old and wretched. She prays to Kanzeon for salvation. She encounters Ariwara no Narihira, and the two discuss their romantic histories and how popular they had once been. Komachi abandons the capital when she is ridiculed for her decrepit appearance, and travels to the Tōkaidō and eventually to Mutsu Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kayoi Komachi
''Kayoi Komachi'' (通小町) or (The Courtship of Komachi) is a Noh play by Kan'ami Kiyotsugu, about the legend of the famous poetess Ono no Komachi. Unlike Kan'ami's ''Sotoba Komachi'', this play features the doomed lover Shōshō as the principal actor, and Komachi as the secondary or . Plot A meditating monk is offered daily provisions by a woman - the catalogue of her fruits and nuts being a feature of the play. The woman is revealed as the ghost of Komachi. When the monk attempts to save her soul, the resentful presence of her former lover Shōshō interrupts the process. The ghost pair are encouraged to act out/relive the one hundred days of courtship Komachi had imposed on Shōshō, leading directly to his death, and are thereafter released from their bondage/attachment and set free. Literary associations *Ezra Pound in his translation/adaptation of the play gave the two lovers a Dante-esque aura. *Yukio Mishima saw the figure of Komachi in the play as representing the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Komachi Ōji
is a street in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, that begins at (locality named after a bridge which no longer existsA guide to KamakuraYukinoshitaretrieved on January 13, 2009) from the Kanazawa Kaidō, crosses Yoko Ōji, passes in front of Hōkai-ji and Honkaku-ji, crosses the Ebisudōbashi Bridge (see photo), Ōmachi Ōji and Kuruma Ōji, reaches Moto Hachiman and Kōmyō-ji, and finally ends in Zaimokuza near Wakaejima. It is believed this is what the '' Azuma Kagami'' calls "Komachi Ōji" and other texts "Komachi Kōji".Kamakura Shōkō Kaigijo (2008:57)Nihon Rekishi Chimei Taikei, "Wakamiya Ōji" It used to be also called . The name seems to stem from the fact that the Ebisudōbashi Bridge has been for centuries the border between the two areas called Komachi and Ōmachi, Komachi being the more important of the two. The ''Azuma Kagami'' says that along Komachi Ōji there were the houses of the powerful (the '' gokenin'') and, for almost the entire Kamakura period The is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Komachi, Iran
Komachi ( fa, كماچي, also Romanized as Komāchī) is a village in Qohestan Rural District, Qohestan District, Darmian County, South Khorasan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni .... At the 2006 census, its population was 110, in 24 families. References Populated places in Darmian County {{Darmian-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Komachi (train)
The is a high-speed shinkansen service between and in Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) since March 1997. It is the only shinkansen service that runs on the Akita Shinkansen, and uses E6 series trains. Between Tokyo Station and , it couples with Tōhoku Shinkansen E5 series ''Hayabusa'' and formerly E2 series for E3 series respectively. After Morioka, the ''Komachi'' service continues along standard gauge tracks that were converted from narrow gauge. Because it then runs on tracks that have grade crossings, its maximum speed from Morioka to Akita is , compared to on the Tohoku Shinkansen. The ''Komachi'' service was named after a famous poet from the area, Ono no Komachi, whose name (小町) is also synonymous with "belle" or "beauty" in Japanese. Station stops ''Komachi'' services stop at the following stations on the Akita Shinkansen between Morioka and Akita.JR Timetable, March 2013 issue For details of station stops between Tokyo and Morio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sadamu Komachi
was an ace fighter pilot in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II. Participating in many of the Pacific War battles and campaigns as a member of several units, Komachi was officially credited with having destroyed 18 enemy aircraft. Early life Sadamu Komachi was born in 1920 in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. He was the third son of a part-farmer, part-merchant family. In 1938, he enlisted into the navy and was trained for six months at the Kure Kaiheidan. He was then briefly stationed on the battleship Fusō before he applied and was accepted for the enlisted pilot training program. In June 1940, he graduated from the 49th class and was selected for a fighter specialisation, which took place at Ōmura Air Group on Kyushu. He first flew A6M Zero fighter in the autumn of 1940. He was reassigned to the aircraft carrier Akagi in October 1940 for carrier-based fighter specialization. In May 1941 he was assigned to the fighter squadron of the newly built aircraft carri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Touhou Project
The , also known simply as , is a bullet hell shoot 'em up video game series created by one-man independent Japanese ''doujin'' soft developer Team Shanghai Alice. Since 1995, the team's member, Jun'ya "ZUN" Ōta, has independently developed programming, graphics, writing, and music for the series, self-publishing 18 mainline games and six spin-offs . ZUN has also produced related print works and music albums, and collaborated with developer Twilight Frontier on seven official ''Touhou'' spin-offs, most being fighting games. The ''Touhou Project'' is set in a land sealed from the outside world and primarily inhabited by humans and ''yōkai'', legendary creatures from Japanese folklore that are personified in ''Touhou'' as ''bishōjo'' in an anthropomorphic ''moe'' style. Reimu Hakurei, the ''miko'' of the Hakurei Shrine and the main character of the series, is often tasked with resolving supernatural "incidents" caused in and around Gensokyo. The first five games were de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
