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Tsuneko Kikuchi
Tsuneko (written: 恒子 or つね子) is a feminine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese swimmer *, Japanese nurse *, pen-name of Nakazato Tsune, Japanese writer *, Japanese scientist *, Japanese photographer * Tsuneko Taniuchi, Japanese performance artist {{given name Japanese feminine 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] |
Tsuneko Furuta
was a Japanese freestyle swimmer. She competed in two events at the 1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp .... References External links * 1921 births Possibly living people Japanese female freestyle swimmers Olympic swimmers for Japan Swimmers at the 1936 Summer Olympics {{Japan-swimming-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsuneko Kondo-Kavese
was a Japanese and Slovenian nurse, promoter of Japanese culture in Yugoslavia. Life and work Kondo-Kavese Tsuneko was born in Gifu, Japan, a daughter of court architect Kondo-Kavese Kagijiro. After the Russo-Japanese War, she relocated with her family to Beijing, where she studied medicine, though she did not graduate. In the International Club, she met Ivan Skušek, a Slovenian officer (first class superior naval inspector) of the Austro-Hungarian Navy who was stationed aboard cruiser SMS Kaiserin Elisabeth SMS ''Kaiserin Elisabeth'' was a protected cruiser of the Austro-Hungarian Navy. Named in honor of the Empress Elisabeth, consort of Emperor Franz Josef, the cruiser was designed for overseas service and in fact was stationed in China at the .... The couple married in Beijing and in 1920 the family (couple, her son and daughter from first marriage) left China and moved to Ljubljana, where she soon learned Slovenian. She served as head nurse for the Red Cross a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsuneko Nakazato
was the pen-name of a novelist in Shōwa period Japan. Her real name was Nakazato Tsune. Early life Nakazato was born in Fujisawa city, Kanagawa prefecture and graduated from the Kanagawa Girls’ Higher School. When she was 17 years old she met Tatsuo Nagai and started writing, publishing multiple novellas before her marriage at age 19. Literary career In 1938, Nakazato became the first woman to win the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, with her short story ''Noriai bashi''. After World War II, she came to be known for a number of works addressing the issue of international marriage, including ''Mariannu monogatari'' ("Maryann's Story", 1946) and ''Kusari'' ("Chain", 1959), which were drawn from her own daughter's marriage to an American. Her novel ''Utamakura'' ("Song Pillow", 1973) was awarded the Yomiuri Prize. In 1974, she received the Japan Art Academy Prize, and became a member of that institution in 1983. Nakazato was a resident of Zushi, Kanagawa from 1932 until her death ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsuneko Okazaki
is a Japanese pioneer of molecular biology known for her work on DNA replication and specifically for discovering Okazaki fragments, along with her husband Reiji. Dr. Tsuneko Okazaki has continued to be involved in academia, contributing to more advancements in DNA research. Early life and education Tsuneko Okazaki was born in Nagoya, capital of the Aichi Prefecture of Japan, in 1933. She graduated from Aichi Prefectural Asahigaoka Senior High School. During her undergraduate years, she studied biology at Nagoya University School of Science. She graduated with her PhD from Nagoya University School of Science in 1956, which was also the year that she met her husband, Reiji Okazaki. They married that same year and soon after, they joined their research work and laboratories. Work leading to and discovery of Okazaki fragments Tsuneko and Reiji Okazaki's early research consisted of studying DNA synthesis and specific nucleotide characteristics in frog eggs and sea urchins. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsuneko Sasamoto
was Japan's first female photojournalist. Early life Sasamoto was born in Tokyo, Japan. She went to a college of home economics, but quit because of her ambition to become a painter. After dropping out, she attended an institute of painting without telling her parents, and a dressmaking school. Career Sasamoto started her career as a part-time illustrator on the local news pages in Tokyo Nichinichi Shimbun (now Mainichi Shimbun, one of the newspapers in Japan). At 26, she got promoted to a probationary employee in 1940 when she joined the Photographic Society in Japan, officially becoming the first female photojournalist in Japan. She stated that Margaret Bourke-White was a major influence in why she became a photographer. Sasamoto photographed subjects from General Douglas MacArthur during the American occupation of Japan Japan was occupied and administered by the victorious Allies of World War II from the 1945 surrender of the Empire of Japan at the end of the war u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsuneko Taniuchi
Tsuneko Taniuchi (谷内恒子 Taniuchi Tsuneko), born in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan, in 1946, is a contemporary artist, who uses performance as her main medium. Her practice, which oscillates between scripted situations and participatory works, aims to question cultural, social, and sexual constructions, linked to notions of identity, immigrations, and feminism. Education and early works After studying 20th-century Western art history and sociology at the of Kobe Jogakuin, Japan, Tsuneko Taniuchi studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris (France) for two years between (1970–1972). From 1983 to 1987, she travelled extensively between New York, Paris, and Japan (Kobe, Tokyo), before settling permanently in France in 1987. Her early works focused first on paintings, and then on installations, including photographs, and videos. Works In 1995, she began her performance work, which she sees as a series of "micro-events." This term refers to the personal dimension of her actions, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
