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Yaeko
Yaeko is a female Japanese given name. People *, Ainu waka poet and evangelist. *, Japanese nurse, wife of Joseph Hardy Neesima *, Japanese novelist *, Japanese volleyball player *, Japanese woman kidnapped by North Korea * Yaeko Uehara, a geiko and Mineko Iwasaki's older sister. References {{given name Japanese feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yamamoto Yaeko
, also known as , was a Japanese female warrior, educator, nurse, and scholar of the late Edo period who lived into the early Shōwa period. Her samurai family belonged to the Hoshina clan, loyal to the Tokugawa Shogunate. Skilled in gunnery, she helped defend the Aizu Domain during the Boshin War, earning her the nicknames “Nightingale of Japan” and “Bakumatsu Joan of Arc”. Yaeko served as a nurse during the Russo-Japanese War and Sino-Japanese War, and became the first woman outside of Imperial House of Japan after the Meiji Restoration (originated in 1870s) to be decorated for her service to the country. She was famously known as the wife of Joseph Hardy Neesima, the founder of Doshisha English School in 1875, and with a help of American missionary Alice J. Starkweather, they co-founded the Doshisha Girls’ School a year later. Early life Yamamoto Yae was born the daughter of Yamamoto Gonpachi, a samurai and one of the official gunnery instructors in Aizu Domai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaeko Batchelor
was an Ainu waka poet and evangelism, evangelist. Life Yaeko Batchelor was born on June 13, 1884, in Usu, Date, Hokkaido, Date City, Hokkaido. Her name was entered into the family register as , and her childhood name was Fuchi. Her father was , a member of a powerful Ainu family, and whose Ainu name was . Her mother was named . Among Yaeko's five siblings was the Anglican pastor . Yaeko's father deeply trusted the Anglican missionary John Batchelor (missionary), John Batchelor, and allowed Yaeko to be baptized. However, when Yaeko was 11, her father died. When she was 13, she set out for Sapporo to attend the Ainu Ainu or Aynu may refer to: *Ainu people, an East Asian ethnic group of Japan and the Russian Far East *Ainu languages, a family of languages **Ainu language of Hokkaido **Kuril Ainu language, extinct language of the Kuril Islands **Sakhalin Ainu la ... Girls' School that Batchelor operated, and later advanced to St. Hilda's School in Tokyo. In 1906, when Yaeko was 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaeko Taguchi
is a Japanese citizen, one of several kidnapped by North Korea in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Abduction Taguchi worked as a bar hostess in Tokyo, Japan, to raise her two children, a one-year-old son and three-year-old daughter, after divorcing her husband. She disappeared in June 12, 1978, at the age of 22, after dropping her children off at a day care centre. She was forced to help train North Korean spy Kim Hyon Hui, the surviving bomber of Korean Air Flight 858.Suspected Abduction Cases by North Korea "Lee Un Hae" Case National Police Agency 警察庁 In 2002, North Korea admitted that she and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaeko Nogami
Yaeko is a female Japanese given name. People *, Ainu waka poet and evangelist. *, Japanese nurse, wife of Joseph Hardy Neesima *, Japanese novelist *, Japanese volleyball player *, Japanese woman kidnapped by North Korea * Yaeko Uehara, a geiko and Mineko Iwasaki's older sister. References {{given name Japanese feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Hardy Neesima
(born ; 12 February 1843 – 23 January 1890), better known by his English name Joseph Hardy Neesima, was a Japanese Protestant missionary and educator of the Meiji era who founded Doshisha English School (later Doshisha University). He was the husband of Yamamoto Yaeko, a former soldier and nurse who served during the Boshin War, Russo-Japanese and Sino-Japanese War, who later founded Doshisha Girls' School. Early life He was born in Edo (present-day Tokyo), the son of a retainer of the Itakura clan of Annaka. His childhood name was . He attended Tokugawa Naval School from 1861. In 1864, laws on national isolation were still in effect in Japan, and Japanese people were not permitted to travel overseas without government permission. However, Niijima had read extensively on various rangaku topics, and was determined to come to America. At the age of 21, he entreated Captain William T. Savory, of Salem, Massachusetts, commander of the brig ''Berlin'', for safe passage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaeko Yamazaki
is a Japanese former volleyball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (german: München 1972), was an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. .... She was born in Ōmuta. In 1972 she was part of the Japanese team which won the silver medal in the Olympic tournament. She played two matches. External links profile 1950 births Living people Japanese women's volleyball players Olympic volleyball players of Japan Volleyball players at the 1972 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Japan Olympic medalists in volleyball People from Ōmuta, Fukuoka Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics {{Japan-volleyball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mineko Iwasaki
, birthname , is a Japanese businesswoman, author and former geisha. Iwasaki was the most famous geisha in Japan until her sudden retirement at the age of 29. Known for her performances for celebrity and royalty during her geisha life, Iwasaki was the heir apparent () to her geisha house () while she was just a young apprentice. American author Arthur Golden interviewed her for background information when writing his 1997 book, ''Memoirs of a Geisha''. Iwasaki later regretted interviewing for Golden, having cited a breach of confidentiality and later sued and settled out of court with Golden for the parallelism between his book and her life. In 2002 she released her own autobiography (titled ''Geisha of Gion'' in the UK and ''Geisha: A Life'' in the US). Life and career Born as Masako Tanaka, she left home at the age of four to begin studying traditional Japanese dance at the Iwasaki (geisha house) in the Gion district of Kyoto. She was legally adopted by the 's owner, Madame O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Name
in modern times consist of a family name (surname) followed by a given name, in that order. Nevertheless, when a Japanese name is written in the Roman alphabet, ever since the Meiji era, the official policy has been to cater to Western expectations and reverse the order. , the government has stated its intention to change this policy. Japanese names are usually written in kanji, which are characters mostly Chinese language, Chinese in origin but Japanese language, Japanese in pronunciation. The pronunciation of Japanese kanji in names follows a special set of rules, though parents are able to choose pronunciations; many foreigners find it difficult to read kanji names because of parents being able to choose which pronunciations they want for certain kanji, though most pronunciations chosen are common when used in names. Some kanji are banned for use in names, such as the kanji for "weak" and "failure", amongst others. Parents also have the option of using hiragana or katakana w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
