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Ni Ka
(born in Tokyo City, Japan) is a Japanese poet, artist. She has published "AR poems" using augmented reality technology, "monitor poems" filled with emoji, and other genre-crossing works to widespread acclaim. One of her AR poems, "Best 100 Cultural Energies to Generate Power in 2012 Japan!!!!!" was selected as part of the DOMMUNE Official Guidebook 2. She won M/F prize when the 3331 art fair was on show in 2014. Work ni_ka took arrangement of the objects on the platform at the one-year memorial service for the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami to be an extension of concrete poetry, reacting with her "Manifesto on Updating Japanese Concrete Poetry." This inventor and practitioner "monitor poetry" and "AR poetry" states: unless I discover ''words'', somehow absorb, collect and aggregate within ''wata-shi'' first person pronoun of her own invention that combines ''watashi'', meaning "I" or "me," with ''shi'', "poem" or "poetry"all that hangs in suspension around ''words'', and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo City
was a Cities of Japan, municipality in Japan and part of Tokyo Prefecture (1868–1943), Tokyo-fu which existed from 1 May 1889 until its merger with its prefecture on 1 July 1943. The historical boundaries of Tokyo City are now occupied by the Special wards of Tokyo, Special Wards of Tokyo. The new merged government became what is now Tokyo, also known as the ''Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis'', or, ambiguously, ''Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture''. History In 1868, the medieval city of Edo, seat of the Tokugawa shogunate, Tokugawa government, was renamed Tokyo, and the offices of Tokyo Prefecture (''-fu'') were opened. The extent of Tokyo Prefecture was initially limited to the former Edo city, but rapidly augmented to be comparable with the present Tokyo Metropolis. In 1878, the Meiji government's reorganization of local governments subdivided prefectures into Counties of Japan, counties or districts (''gun'', further subdivided into Towns of Japan, towns and Villages of Japan, village ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Women Artists
This is a list of women artists who were born in Japan or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. A *Chako Abeno, manga artist *Fuku Akino (1908–2001), painter *Akira Amano (born 1973), manga artist *Kozue Amano (born 1974), manga artist *Yasuko Aoike (born 1948), manga artist *Kotomi Aoki (born 1980), manga artist *Ume Aoki, manga artist *Chiho Aoshima (born 1974), pop artist *Hina Aoyama (born 1970), paper-cutting artist, illustrator *Kiyoko Arai, manga artist *Hiromu Arakawa (born 1973), manga artist *Sakura Asagi, illustrator, manga artist * Yū Asagiri, manga artist *George Asakura (born 1974), manga artist *Hinako Ashihara, manga artist *Izumi Aso (born 1960), manga artist B *Ippongi Bang (born 1965), multimedia and manga artist C *Toriko Chiya, manga artist *Junko Chodos (born 1939), mixed media artist, now in the United States *Nanae Chrono (born 1980), manga artist * Clamp, manga artists E *Eiki Eiki (born 1971), manga artist * Kinuko Emi (1923–2015 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Andrew Campana
Andrew is the English form of a given name common in many countries. In the 1990s, it was among the top ten most popular names given to boys in English-speaking countries. "Andrew" is frequently shortened to "Andy" or "Drew". The word is derived from the el, Ἀνδρέας, ''Andreas'', itself related to grc, ἀνήρ/ἀνδρός ''aner/andros'', "man" (as opposed to "woman"), thus meaning "manly" and, as consequence, "brave", "strong", "courageous", and "warrior". In the King James Bible, the Greek "Ἀνδρέας" is translated as Andrew. Popularity Australia In 2000, the name Andrew was the second most popular name in Australia. In 1999, it was the 19th most common name, while in 1940, it was the 31st most common name. Andrew was the first most popular name given to boys in the Northern Territory in 2003 to 2015 and continuing. In Victoria, Andrew was the first most popular name for a boy in the 1970s. Canada Andrew was the 20th most popular name chosen for male ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stéphane Mallarmé
Stéphane Mallarmé ( , ; 18 March 1842 – 9 September 1898), pen name of Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of the early 20th century, such as Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, and Surrealism. Biography Mallarmé was born in Paris. He was a boarder at the ''Pensionnat des Frères des écoles chrétiennes à Passy'' between 6 or 9 October 1852 and March 1855. He worked as an English teacher and spent much of his life in relative poverty but was famed for his '' salons'', occasional gatherings of intellectuals at his house on the rue de Rome for discussions of poetry, art and philosophy. The group became known as ''les Mardistes,'' because they met on Tuesdays (in French, ''mardi''), and through it Mallarmé exerted considerable influence on the work of a generation of writers. For many years, those sessions, where Mallarmé held court as judge, jester, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gozo Yoshimasu
Gozo (, ), Maltese: ''Għawdex'' () and in antiquity known as Gaulos ( xpu, 𐤂𐤅𐤋, ; grc, Γαῦλος, Gaúlos), is an island in the Maltese archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea. The island is part of the Republic of Malta. After the island of Malta itself, it is the second-largest island in the archipelago. As of 2021, the island has a population of around 31,232 (out of Malta's total 443,227), and its inhabitants are known as Gozitans ( mt, Għawdxin). It is rich in historic locations such as the Ġgantija temples, which, along with the other Megalithic Temples of Malta, are amongst the world's oldest free-standing structures. The island is rural in character and less developed than the island of Malta. Gozo is known for its scenic hills, which are featured on its coat of arms. The Azure Window, a natural limestone arch, was a remarkable geological feature until its collapse on March 8, 2017. The island has other notable natural features, including the Inland Sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seiichi Niikuni
was a Japanese poet and painter. He was one of the foremost pioneers of the international avant-garde concrete poetry movement, creating works of calligraphic, visual and aural poetry. He is recognized as one of the most important poets of recent times in Japanese and German textbooks. 建畠・城戸・金澤（2009）p.10 It is said that during his later years, he started to prefer the old kanji orthography form of his name, . 新国誠一 works（2008）p.8 Life Time in Sendai Niikuni was born on December 7, 1925 in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. 金澤（2009）p.67 He entered the Sendai Technical School (now Sendai Technical High School) and studied architecture. After graduating from high school, he entered the Tohoku Gakuin University to study English literature and graduated from there in 1951. In 1952 he began his career as a poet in earnest by joining a circle that published the poetry magazine ''Hyōga'' (, lit. "glacier"). In the fifth issue of this magazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emoji
An emoji ( ; plural emoji or emojis) is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages. The primary function of emoji is to fill in emotional cues otherwise missing from typed conversation. Examples of emoji are 😂, 😃, 🧘🏻♂️, 🌍, 🌦️, 🍞, 🚗, 📞, 🎉, ❤️, 🍆, 🍑 and 🏁. Emoji exist in various genres, including facial expressions, common objects, places and types of weather, and animals. They are much like emoticons, except emoji are pictures rather than typographic approximations; the term "emoji" in the strict sense refers to such pictures which can be represented as character encoding, encoded characters, but it is sometimes applied to Sticker (messaging), messaging stickers by extension. Originally meaning pictograph, the word ''emoji'' comes from Japanese + ; the resemblance to the English words ''emotion'' and ''emoticon'' is False cognate, purely coincidental. The I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
