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Mishima Jinja
Mishima may refer to: Places * Mishima, Fukushima, a town in Fukushima Prefecture * Mishima, Kagoshima, a village in Kagoshima Prefecture * Mishima, Niigata, a town in Niigata Prefecture * Mishima, Shizuoka, a city in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan * Mishima District, Osaka, a district in Osaka Prefecture, Japan * Mishima Island, Yamaguchi, an island outside Hagi in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan ** Mishima cattle, an endangered cattle breed found on the island Other uses * People named Mishima (surname); most notably, Japanese writer Yukio Mishima * Mishima, a megacorporation in ''Mutant Chronicles'' * '' Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters'', a 1985 film directed by Paul Schrader * ''Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters'' (soundtrack), soundtrack to the 1985 film performed by Kronos Quartet and composed by Philip Glass * Mishima pottery, slip inlay style of ceramic pottery adopted from Korea probably in the 16th century * , a predreadnought battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy * Mishima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mishima, Fukushima
is a town located in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 1,590 in 755 households, and a population density of . The total area of the town was . In 2017, Mishima was selected as one of The Most Beautiful Villages in Japan. Geography Mishima is located in the western portion of the Aizu region of Fukushima Prefecture. Most of the town is covered with forests. Traffic is concentrated along the Tadami River in the northern part of the town, and the main functions of the town such as government offices and hospitals are located in the Miyashita area. Miyashita Dam is located slightly upstream, and there is a hydroelectric power plant using the dam. The town has a number of hot springs. *Mountains: Mount Takamori *Rivers: Tadami River *Lakes: Miyashita Dam Neighboring municipalities Fukushima Prefecture * Kaneyama * Shōwa * Yanaizu Climate Mishima has a humid continental climate/oceanic climate (Köppen ''Dfb''/''Cfb'') characterized by warm sum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mishima, Kagoshima
is a village consisting of the inhabited islands of Iōjima, Kuroshima and Takeshima and the uninhabited islands of Shōwa Iōjima and Denshima located in Kagoshima District, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. The village office is located in the city of Kagoshima, outside the village. As of June 2013, the village has an estimated population of 383 and a population density of 12.2 persons per km². The total area is 31.36 km². Geography The islands of Miura Village are the northernmost of the Ryukyu archipelago, and although now grouped together with the Ōsumi Islands, are physically an extension of the Tokara island arc. All of the islands are the exposed peaks of stratovolcanos rising from the ocean floor, and most are volcanically active. Surrounding municipalities * Makurazaki *Ibusuki * Nishinoomote *Minamisatsuma * Minamikyūshū * Minamiōsumi * Nakatane * Minamitane *Yakushima History The islands have been inhabited since at least the Jōmon period. During histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mishima, Niigata
was a town located in Santō District, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the town has an estimated population of 7,535 and a density of . The total area is . On April 1, 2005, Mishima, along with the town of Oguni (from Kariwa District), the village of Yamakoshi (from Koshi District), the town of Nakanoshima is a 3 km long and 50 hectares narrow sandbank in Kita-ku, Osaka city, Japan, that divides the Kyū-Yodo into the Tosabori and Dōjima rivers. Many governmental and commercial offices (including the city hall of Osaka), museums and other ... (from Minamikanbara District), and the town of Koshiji (also from Santō District), was merged into the expanded city of Nagaoka. Transportation Railway had been operated in the town until 1975. Highway * * Dissolved municipalities of Niigata Prefecture Nagaoka, Niigata {{Niigata-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mishima, Shizuoka
Mishima City Hall is a city located in eastern Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 109,803 in 49,323 households, and a population density of 1800 persons per km². The total area of the city is . Geography Mishima is located in far eastern Shizuoka Prefecture, at the northern end of Izu Peninsula and in the foothills of Mount Fuji. Surrounding municipalities *Shizuoka Prefecture **Numazu ** Susono **Kannami ** Shimizu **Nagaizumi *Kanagawa Prefecture **Hakone Demographics Per Japanese census data, the population of Mishima has remained stable over the past 25 years. Climate Mishima has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification ''Cfa'') with hot summers and cool winters. Precipitation is significant throughout the year, but is heaviest from June to September. The average annual temperature in Mishima is . The average annual rainfall is with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in Augus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mishima District, Osaka
is a district located in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. As of 2009, the district has an estimated population of 29,003 and a density of . The total area is . Town *Shimamoto Shimamoto (written: 島本 or 嶋本) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *, Japanese manga artist *, Japanese weightlifter *, Japanese writer *, Japanese gravure idol *, Japanese shogi player *, Japanese artist *, Japan ... Districts in Osaka Prefecture {{Osaka-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mishima Island, Yamaguchi
, is an island in the in Hagi, in Yamaguchi Prefecture in the Chūgoku region of south-western Honshu, Japan. It lies in the Sea of Japan, approximately from Hagi. It has a surface area of approximately , and a population of 829 in 458 households. Battle of Tsushima The Battle of Tsushima between Russian and Japanese forces took place near the island of Mishima on 27–28 May 1905, during the Russo-Japanese War. Nikolai Nebogatov surrendered to the Japanese on 28 May, and his remaining ships were taken. One of these, the '' Admiral Seniavin'', was renamed ''Mishima'' when commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Navy. Cattle The island is home to the rare and criticallyendangered Mishima breed of Japanese native cattle, which was declared a Japanese National Treasure in 1928, and is one of two remaining breeds of Japanese native cattle – the other being the Kuchinoshima breed on Kuchinoshima island in the Tokara Islands. Clay The island is the source of Mishima cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mishima Cattle
The Mishima ( ja, 見島牛, ''Mishima ushi'') is a criticallyendangered Japanese breed of beef cattle. It is found only on Mishima Island, some north-west of Hagi, in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. It is one of six native Japanese cattle breeds, and one of two small populations that have never been cross-bred with Western cattle, the other being the Kuchinoshima breed from Kuchinoshima island in the Tokara Island group. History Cattle were brought to Japan from China at the same time as the cultivation of rice, in about the second century AD, in the Yayoi period. Until about the time of the Meiji Restoration in 1868, they were used only as draught animals, in agriculture, forestry, mining and for transport, and as a source of fertiliser. Milk consumption was unknown, and – for cultural and religious reasons – meat was not eaten. Cattle were highly prized and valuable, too expensive for a poor farmer to buy. Japan was effectively isolated from the rest of the world from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mishima (surname)
Mishima (written: or ) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Dokonjonosuke Mishima (born 1972), Japanese mixed martial artist *, Japanese philosopher *, Japanese footballer * Mishima Michitsune (1835–1888), viscount and statesman of the Tokugawa shogunate * Michiharu Mishima (1897–1965), viscount of the Scout Association of Japan, Chief Scout of Japan *, Japanese footballer * Yukio Mishima (1925–1970), the penname of Kimitake Hiraoka, a Japanese novelist and playwright Fictional characters * Heihachi Mishima, a ''Tekken'' character * Jinpachi Mishima, a ''Tekken'' character * Kazumi Mishima, a ''Tekken'' character * Kazumi Mishima (三島 和己), a character from ''Your Turn To Die'' * Kazuya Mishima, a ''Tekken'' character * References {{surname Japanese-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yukio Mishima
, born , was a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, model, Shintoist, Nationalism, nationalist, and founder of the , an unarmed civilian militia. Mishima is considered one of the most important Japanese authors of the 20th century. He was considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, but the award went to his countryman and benefactor Yasunari Kawabata. His works include the novels and , and the autobiographical essay . Mishima's work is characterized by "its luxurious vocabulary and decadent metaphors, its fusion of Japanese literature, traditional Japanese and modern Western literature, Western literary styles, and its obsessive assertions of the unity of beauty, eroticism and death", according to author Andrew Rankin. Mishima's political activities made him a controversial figure, which he remains in modern Japan. From his mid-30s, Mishima's Right-wing politics, right-wing ideology was increasingly revealed. He was proud of the traditional culture and spirit of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mutant Chronicles
''Mutant Chronicles'' is a pen-and-paper role-playing game set in a post-apocalyptic world, originally published in 1993. It has spawned a franchise of collectible card games, miniature wargames, video games, novels, comic books, and a film of the same title based on the game world. ''Mutant Chronicles'' was developed by the Swedish company Target Games as an independent spinoff to their ''Mutant'' RPG series, specifically Mutant RYMD released the year before. Unlike previous Swedish role-playing games, Mutant Chronics was released in English, and focused on reaching an international audience. The rights to the game are now owned by Paradox Entertainment. In 2015, Cabinet Holdings acquired Paradox Entertainment Inc. and all subsidiaries and their properties, including Mutant Chronicles. Story The game takes place in a distant future where the Earth has long since been depleted of natural resources and abandoned. Humanity has spread to the worlds of Venus, Mars, Mercury ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Life In Four Chapters
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Life In Four Chapters (soundtrack)
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
