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Toshiko Shimaki
Toshiko is a feminine Japanese given name. Possible writings *敏子 "agile/clever, child" *俊子 "genius, child" *淑子 "graceful/polite, child" *寿子 "longevity, child" *年子 "year/age, child" *歳子 "age/time, child" *稔子 "humble, child" The name can also be written in hiragana (としこ) or katakana (トシコ). People with the name *Toshiko Abe (born 1959), Japanese politician *Toshiko Akiyoshi (born 1929), Japanese musician (jazz pianist, composer, arranger, bandleader) *Toshiko D'Elia (born 1930), American Masters athletics long distance runner *Toshiko Ezaki, Japanese singer and songwriter *Toshiko Fujita (born 1950, dead 2018), Japanese voice actress *Toshiko Hamayotsu (born 1945), Japanese politician of the New Komeito Party *, Japanese swimmer *Toshiko Hayashi (born 1940), Japanese communist politician *Toshiko Higashikuni (1896-1978), aka Princess Yasu aka Princess Toshiko, 9th daughter of the Japanese Emperor Meiji *Toshiko Hirata, writer (poet) *Nana ... [...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] |
