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Okita Soji
Okita is a Japanese surname. Ōkita, sometimes spelled Ookita, is a different Japanese surname pronounced with a long vowel at the beginning. Notable people with these surnames include: * , Japanese samurai in the Shinchōgumi police force of Edo (modern-day Tokyo) * , sister of Okita Sōji * , Japanese samurai in the Shinsengumi police force of Kyoto * , Japanese Olympic discus thrower * , Japanese economic and politician * Dwight Okita (born 1958), American novelist of Japanese descent * Jonathan Okita (born 1995), Belgian football forward * Randall Okita (), Canadian film director Fictional characters with this surname include: *Jūzō Okita, a fictional character in Space Battleship Yamato is a Japanese science fiction anime series produced and written by Yoshinobu Nishizaki, directed by manga artist Leiji Matsumoto, and produced by Academy Productions. The series aired in Yomiuri TV from October 6, 1974 to March 30, 1975, ... * Sougo Okita, a swordsman based on Sōj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Surname
Officially, among Japanese names there are 291,129 different Japanese surnames, as determined by their kanji, although many of these are Japanese orthography, pronounced and romanization of Japanese, romanized similarly. Conversely, some surnames written the same in kanji may also be pronounced differently. The top 10 surnames cover approximately 10% of the population, while the top 100 surnames cover slightly more than 33%. This ranking is a result of an August 2008 study by Meiji Yasuda Life, Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company, which included approximately 6,118,000 customers of Meiji Yasuda's insurance and annuities. References {{Names_in_world cultures Japanese names Names by culture Japanese culture Lists of surnames, Japanese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Phonology
The phonology of Japanese features about 15 consonant phonemes, the cross-linguistically typical five-vowel system of , and a relatively simple phonotactic distribution of phonemes allowing few consonant clusters. It is traditionally described as having a mora as the unit of timing, with each mora taking up about the same length of time, so that the disyllabic ("Japan") may be analyzed as and dissected into four moras, , , , and . Standard Japanese is a pitch-accent language, wherein the position or absence of a pitch drop may determine the meaning of a word: "chopsticks", "bridge", "edge" (see Japanese pitch accent). Unless otherwise noted, the following describes the standard variety of Japanese based on the Tokyo dialect. Consonants *Voiceless stops are slightly aspirated: less aspirated than English stops, but more so than Spanish. *, a remnant of Old Japanese, now occurs almost always medially in compounds, typically as a result of gemination (as in 切符 ''k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Okita Rintarō
(born ; March 30, 1826 – February 13, 1883) was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period who was a of the '' Shinchōgumi'' (the Shinsengumi's counterpart in Edo). Biography Born in Hino, Edo in 1826, he was Inoue Sōzō's younger brother and related to Inoue Genzaburō's family.Mori Makiko 森満喜子. ''Okita Sōji omokage-shō'' 沖田総司・おもかげ抄. Tokyo: Shin Jinbutsu Oraisha, 1999. He later became an adopted son of Okita Katsujirō (Okita Sōji's father) and changed his name to Okita Rintarō before his marriage to Katsujirō's daughter Mitsu in 1846 (Kōka 3). He then served as the head of the Okita family in place of Sōji. A licensed practitioner of the Tennen Rishin Ryu, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Okita Mitsu
Okita Mitsu (沖田 みつ; May 26, 1833 – November 2, 1907) was the eldest sister of Okita Sōji, captain of the first unit of the Shinsengumi. Background She was born the eldest daughter of Okita Katsujirō, in a samurai family from Mutsu Province. In 1846, she married Inoue Rintarō, who later became Okita Rintarō, after being adopted into the Okita family. They had a child in 1853. In 1868, during the Boshin War, Sōji was suffering from tuberculosis and thus stayed with Mitsu and her family in Edo, while the rest of the Tokugawa shogunate forces retreated to the Tohoku region. Mitsu looked after the terminally ill Sōji, until she and her family were forced to evacuate to Shonai han. Sōji died on May 30 of that year. Mitsu returned to Edo in 1872. Her husband died in 1883, and she went to live with her youngest son in Manchuria. She died in 1907. In popular culture In ''Gintama'', Okita Sōgo's sister, Okita Mitsuba, is based on her. In the 2004 Taiga drama ''Shins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Okita Sōji
was the captain of the first unit of the Shinsengumi, a special police force in Kyoto during the late shogunate period. He was one of the best swordsmen of the Shinsengumi. Background He was born in 1842 or 1844 from a samurai family in the Shirakawa Domain's Edo mansion. His great-grandfather was Okita Kan'emon (d. 1819) and his grandfather was Okita Sanshiro (d. 1833.) His father, Okita Katsujiro, died in 1845; he had two older sisters, Okita Mitsu (1833–1907) and Okita Kin (1836–1908). In 1846, in order to marry the adopted son of the Okita family, Okita Rintarō (1826–1883), his oldest sister Okita Mitsu became an adopted daughter of Kondo Shusuke in name. Kondo Shusuke was the third master of the ''Tennen Rishin-ryū'' and Okita started training at the ''Shieikan'' with him around the age of nine. By that time, Kondo Shusuke had already adopted Shimazaki Katsuta (the later Kondō Isami), but Hijikata Toshizō had not yet enrolled at the Tennen Rishin-ryū school. Ok ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshio Okita
Yoshio Okita (Japanese: 沖田 芳夫, March 28, 1903 – April 28, 2001) was a Japanese track and field athlete who won a gold medal in the discus throw at the 1927 Far Eastern Championship Games. He competed in the hammer and discus throw at the 1928 Summer Olympics and placed 15th and 30th, respectively. He also attended the 1932 and 1936 Olympics as a field coach for the Japanese athletics team. In 1993 Okita took part in the World Masters Athletics Championships The World Masters Athletics Championships are the biennial championships for masters athletics events held under the auspices of World Masters Athletics, formerly called the World Association of Veteran Athletes, for athletes 35 years of age or o .... Being the sole hammer throw competitor in the over 90 years age group he won the event with a result of 12.1 m. References 1903 births 2001 deaths Japanese athletics coaches Japanese male hammer throwers Japanese male discus throwers Olympic male hammer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saburō Ōkita
Saburō Ōkita (大来 佐武郎 ''Ōkita Saburō'') (3 November 1914 – 9 February 1993) was a Japanese economist and politician noted for his role in the postwar development of the Japanese economy and Japan-US relations. Early life and education Ōkita was born in Dalian, Kwantung Leased Territory on 3 November 1914. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University, and later earned a PhD from Nagoya University in 1962. Career In 1937, Ōkita worked as an engineer with the Ministry of Posts. Later on he held numerous government positions, including chief of research for the Economic Stabilization Board in 1947, chief of the economic cooperation unit for the Economic Planning Agency in 1953 and later director general of their planning bureau in 1957, and then in 1963 the director general of the EPA development bureau. In each of these positions, he played an important role under the economic plan of then prime minister Hayato Ikeda, which greatly helped Japan's postwar economy. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dwight Okita
Dwight Holden Okita (born August 26, 1958) is a Japanese-American novelist, poet, and playwright. His work reflects his experiences as a third-generation Japanese-American (sansei), a gay man, and a Nichiren Buddhist. He studied English literature at the University of Illinois, Chicago. His first book of poems, ''Crossing with the Light'', was published in 1992, and nominated for Best Asian Literature Book of 1993. His plays include ''Salad Bowl Dance'', commissioned in 1993 by the Chicago Historical Society; ''Richard Speck'', commissioned in 1991 by the American Blues Theater; and ''The Rainy Season'', produced in 1993. His novels include ''The Hope Store'' (2017) and THE PROSPECT OF MY ARRIVAL (2011) which was a finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards. He won a Joseph Jefferson Award The Joseph Jefferson Award, more commonly known informally as the Jeff Award, is given for theatre arts produced in the Chicago area. Founded in 1968, the awards are named in tribute to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Okita
Jonathan Yula Okita (born 5 October 1996) is a Congolese professional footballer who plays as a winger for Swiss club Zürich. Born in Germany, he represents the DR Congo national team. Club career Okita made his Belgian First Division A debut for Standard Liège on 17 April 2016 in a game against Royal Excel Mouscron. NEC On 24 August 2018, Okita signed a four-year contract with Eerste Divisie club NEC Nijmegen. Three days later, he made his debut for the club in the 2–1 away win over Jong FC Utrecht. On 8 September, he scored his first goal for the club in the 3–2 away win against Roda JC Kerkrade. In his first season, he impressed with NEC, scoring 15 goals and providing 13 assists in 41 appearances. The following season, Okita struggled with his form, but still managed to score six goals and provide seven assists in 28 games. He was set to leave the club in the summer of 2020, but partly due to the COVID-19 pandemic he stayed at the Nijmegen-based club. As new head ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randall Okita
Randall Okita is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and visual artist known for creating work that involves rich visual language and innovative approaches to storytelling. Career His 2014 National Film Board of Canada short film '' The Weatherman and the Shadowboxer'' has been described as “a visually stunning tour de force.” It won the award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, and was named to the festival's year-end Canada's Top Ten list of the year's ten best Canadian shorts. It also won awards for Best Short Film at the Festival du nouveau cinéma in Montreal, Best Experimental Short Film at both the New York Short Film Festival and LA Shorts Fest, as well as Best Cinematography at the Berlin International Short Film Festival. ''Once Right Now Just Then'', Okita's 2015 performance which explored presence, the passing of time and the nature of grieving and expectation was presented as part of Sunday Drive Art Projects. Okita' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jūzō Okita
This list of ''Space Battleship Yamato'' characters is a list, with biographical details, of major characters appearing in the anime series ''Space Battleship Yamato'' and its American dubbed version, ''Star Blazers'', as well as the Space Battleship Yamato (2010 film), 2010 live-action film remake. Not all the American voice artists are known for the first two seasons (owing to their non-union status they were not credited in the shows' closing titles), and a different group of actors provided voices in the third season. Yamato Crew First season * Captain (Captain Abraham Avatar): The stern captain of the ''Yamato'', utterly devoted to his mission to save Earth from the Gamillas threat, even at the cost of his own life. He is in fact dying, and becomes increasingly ill during the course of the first season, but remains convinced that he will live to see his home world again. He regards Susumu Kodai almost as a replacement for the son he lost in battle, and sorely regrets his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Space Battleship Yamato
is a Japanese science fiction anime series produced and written by Yoshinobu Nishizaki, directed by manga artist Leiji Matsumoto, and produced by Academy Productions. The series aired in Yomiuri TV from October 6, 1974 to March 30, 1975, totaling up to 26 episodes. It revolves around the character Susumu Kodai (Derek Wildstar in the English version) and an international crew from Earth, tasked during an interstellar war to go into space aboard the space warship ''Yamato,'' derived from the World War II battleship of the same name, in response to a message of aid from the planet Iscandar in order to retrieve a device which is able to reverse the radiation infecting Earth after being bombed by the Gamilas (Gamilons). ''Space Battleship Yamato'' is one of the most influential anime series in Japan. Its turn toward serious themes and complex storylines influenced future works in the medium, including ''Gundam'', '' Evangelion'', and ''Macross,'' in addition to video games suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
