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Motoharu Baba
Motoharu (written: , or ) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese kobudoka *, Japanese sport shooter *, Japanese ''daimyō'' *, Japanese racing driver *, Japanese cross-country skier *, Japanese naval aviator *, Japanese musician *, Japanese general *, Japanese bass guitarist {{given name Japanese masculine 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] |
Gosho Motoharu
Gosho Motoharu (; 1919 – October 27, 2012) was a prominent Japanese master of the martial arts, koryu budō or kobudō. The Shihan (master), of the schools Niten Ichi Ryu (created by the famous rōnin Miyamoto Musashi) and Sekiguchi Ryu, Gosho Motoharu was awarded the rank of Menkyo kaiden, in both schools. He was also an iaido Hachidan (8th Dan) and kendo Nanadan (7th Dan). Gosho Motoharu was a close disciple of the 8th Soke (headmaster) of the Niten Ichi Ryu and 14th Soke of Sekiguchi Ryu, master Aoki Kikuo. He was chosen by Aoki to be shihan and adjunct successor of both schools to ensure the teachings of the ryus to the future generations. He was the headmaster of the Gosho-ha Hyoho Niten Ichi ryu, which was the only branch of the ryu to keep the teachings as they arrived the 20th century with Aoki. In 2007, his son, Yoshimochi Kiyoshi, succeeded Kiyonaga Fumiya, as 11th successor, at the request of the Kiyonaga family, and become the 12th successor (daijunidai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motoharu Hirano
is a Japanese Shooting sports, sports shooter. He competed in the Shooting at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Mixed trap, mixed trap event at the 1984 Summer Olympics. References 1940 births Living people Japanese male sport shooters Olympic shooters for Japan Shooters at the 1984 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) Shooters at the 1982 Asian Games Asian Games medalists in shooting Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan Medalists at the 1982 Asian Games 20th-century Japanese people 21st-century Japanese people {{Japan-sportshooting-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kikkawa Motoharu
was the second son of Mōri Motonari, and featured prominently in all the wars of the Mōri clan. He became an active commander of the Mōri army and he with his brother Kobayakawa Takakage became known as the “Mōri Ryōkawa", or “Mōri's Two Rivers" (毛利両川). Biography In 1530, he was born in Yoshida-Kōriyama Castle. When Motoharu was young he was adopted into the Kikkawa clan by Kikkawa Okitsune. He then became head of the family around 1550. In 1547, He married Kumagai Nobunao's daughter. Motoharu fought in many battles alongside his brother, Kobayakawa Takakage, including the 1555 Battle of Miyajima and the 1570 Battle of Nunobeyama. In 1566, he claimed Izumo Province as his fief, after defeating its lords, the Amago clan, in a number of battles. He fought in the 1568 Battle of Torisaka. and the 1569 Battle of Tatarahama. Motoharu also fought in many battles against the Oda such as the 1578 Siege of Kōzuki Castle and the 1582 Siege of Takamatsu. After Od ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motoharu Kurosawa
, nicknamed "Gan-san", is a retired professional Japanese racing driver. He is the patriarch of a racing family; his three sons, Takuya, Haruki, and Tsubasa, are all racing drivers. Racing career After a brief career in domestic motorcycle racing with Honda, Kurosawa signed as a works racing driver for Nissan in 1965. Kurosawa won the 1967 All-Japan Racing Drivers Championship in the Sports Car Division 2. In 1969, Kurosawa won the Japanese Grand Prix sports car race at Fuji Speedway, driving a Nissan R382 along with co-driver Yoshikazu Sunako. Kurosawa drove all 120 laps of the main race. Kurosawa scored seven of the Nissan Skyline 2000GT-R's fifty competitive wins between 1969 and 1972. In 1973, Kurosawa won the inaugural All-Japan Formula 2000 Championship title, in the first season of top formula racing in Japan. The series exists today as the Super Formula Championship. On 2 June 1974, during the second round of the Fuji Grand Champion Series, contact between Kuro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motoharu Matsumura
is a Japanese cross-country skier. He competed in the men's 15 kilometre event at the 1972 Winter Olympics The 1972 Winter Olympics, officially the and commonly known as Sapporo 1972 ( ja, 札幌1972), was a winter multi-sport event held from February 3 to 13, 1972, in Sapporo, Japan. It was the first Winter Olympic Games to take place outside Euro .... References 1946 births Living people Japanese male cross-country skiers Olympic cross-country skiers of Japan Cross-country skiers at the 1972 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Nagano Prefecture 20th-century Japanese people {{Japan-crosscountry-skiing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motoharu Okamura
was a Japanese naval aviator who served as a test pilot in the 1930s, and served as the commander of the 341st Tateyama ''Kōkūtai'' (Air Group) for ''kamikaze'' attacks in June 1944. Career In June 1934, Lt. Okamura was flight testing the second prototype of two Mitsubishi 1MF10 Experimental 7-Shi carrier fighters when it entered an irrecoverable flat spin. Okamura bailed out, but lost four fingers in the accident, jeopardizing his career as a fighter pilot.Mikesh, Robert C., and Abe, Shorzoe, "Japanese Aircraft 1910-1941", Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 1990, . During the Kuangda campaign in China in 1938, Okamura served as a flight leader in the 12th Air Group's fighter squadron, where he was renowned for developing new air tactics for the Navy and was noted as an expert aviator and trainer. He had formed an air demonstration team known as "Genda's Flying Circus" with Yoshita Kobayashi and Minoru Genda, using Nakajima A2N Type 90 fighters, at Yokosuka in 193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motoharu Sano
, is a Japanese singer-songwriter and musician. A graduate of Rikkyo University, Sano is a frontman with a history of performing in several bands which feature music both in Japanese and occasionally, English, playing songs that often have a rock and roll sound to them. In 2007, '' Rolling Stone Japan'' ranked his album ''Someday'' number 11 on a list of the greatest Japanese rock albums of all time. Additionally, he has spent a year in New York City, even doing a radio show there. Sano took part in a special two-day concert commemorating Takashi Matsumoto's 45th anniversary as a lyricist held at the Tokyo International Forum on August 21–22, 2015. He performed lead vocals on " Haikara Hakuchi" with the surviving members of Happy End, Matsumoto, Haruomi Hosono and Shigeru Suzuki, in place of the deceased Eiichi Ohtaki Eiichi Ohtaki (July 28, 1948 – December 30, 2013) was a Japanese musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. He first became known as a member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yamaji Motoharu
Viscount , was a lieutenant general in the early Imperial Japanese Army during the First Sino-Japanese War. Biography Early career Yamaji was born in Tosa Domain (present day Kōchi Prefecture) in what is now part of the city of Kōchi, where his father was an upper-ranked samurai in the service of the Yamauchi clan. At the age of 13, he lost sight in one of his eyes, but notwithstanding his disability, he was appointed a company commander of the '' Jinshotai'', a Tosa-Domain shock force, during the Boshin War of the Meiji Restoration, participating in the Battle of Toba–Fushimi, and in subsequent campaigns in northern Japan against the pro-Tokugawa Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei. During the course of the conflict, he was promoted to company commander, and awarded a stipend of 150 '' koku''. After the war, Yamaji went to Tokyo, and was appointed by the Meiji government as a lieutenant colonel in the fledgling Imperial Japanese Army. During the ''Seikanron'' debate, he supported ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motoharu Yoshizawa
Motoharu Yoshizawa (吉沢元治) (1931 – September 12, 1998) was an influential Japanese bassist known for playing in a distinctive free jazz and free improvisation style, sometimes deploying electronics and using the unusual self-designed five-string bass he referred to as the "Tiritack". Yoshizawa collaborated with innumerable musicians over his long career; some of the better known include Masayuki Takayanagi, Masahiko Togashi, Takehisa Kosugi, Mototeru Takagi, Kaoru Abe, Steve Lacy, Dave Burrell, Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Barre Phillips, Butch Morris, Elliott Sharp, Ikue Mori, Keiji Haino, Kan Mikami, Kazuki Tomokawa, Christopher Yohmei Blasdel & Tenko. History Yoshizawa began playing in a free style in the mid-1960s, in groups with Yosuke Yamashita and Kazunori Takeda, as well as in a famous jam session with Elvin Jones during John Coltrane's Japan tour of 1966. Yoshizawa's own trio with Mototeru Takagi was said to have been pivotal for Japanese free jazz, though no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
