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Kyōko
is a very common feminine Japanese given name. Not to be confused with Kiyoko. Written forms The final syllable "ko" is typically written with the kanji character for child, 子. It is a common suffix to female names in Japan. The first syllable "Kyō" can be written several different ways, with different meanings. *恭, "respectful," *京, "of the city or of the capital," *今日, "of today," *杏, "apricot," *鏡, "mirror," *響, "echo", "influential" The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana. People with the name * Kyoko Aizome (恭子), an AV actress, singer, director, and writer *Kyoko Ariyoshi (京子), a Japanese shōjo manga artist * Kyoko Chan Cox, the daughter of Yoko Ono and jazz musician Anthony Cox *Kyoko Fukada (恭子), a Japanese actress, model, and singer * Kyoko Hamaguchi (京子), a Japanese freestyle wrestler * Kyōko Hasegawa (京子), a Japanese actress *Kyoko Hayashi (京子), a Japanese author *Kyoko Hikami (恭子), a Japanese voice actre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyoko Hikami
is a very common feminine Japanese given name. Not to be confused with Kiyoko. Written forms The final syllable "ko" is typically written with the kanji character for child, 子. It is a common suffix to female names in Japan. The first syllable "Kyō" can be written several different ways, with different meanings. *恭, "respectful," *京, "of the city or of the capital," *今日, "of today," *杏, "apricot," *鏡, "mirror," *響, "echo", "influential" The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana. People with the name * Kyoko Aizome (恭子), an AV actress, singer, director, and writer * Kyoko Ariyoshi (京子), a Japanese shōjo manga artist * Kyoko Chan Cox, the daughter of Yoko Ono and jazz musician Anthony Cox * Kyoko Fukada (恭子), a Japanese actress, model, and singer * Kyoko Hamaguchi (京子), a Japanese freestyle wrestler * Kyōko Hasegawa (京子), a Japanese actress * Kyoko Hayashi (京子), a Japanese author * Kyoko Hikami (恭子), a Japanese voice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyoko Aizome
is a very common feminine Japanese given name. Not to be confused with Kiyoko. Written forms The final syllable "ko" is typically written with the kanji character for child, 子. It is a common suffix to female names in Japan. The first syllable "Kyō" can be written several different ways, with different meanings. *恭, "respectful," *京, "of the city or of the capital," *今日, "of today," *杏, "apricot," *鏡, "mirror," *響, "echo", "influential" The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana. People with the name * Kyoko Aizome (恭子), an AV actress, singer, director, and writer *Kyoko Ariyoshi (京子), a Japanese shōjo manga artist * Kyoko Chan Cox, the daughter of Yoko Ono and jazz musician Anthony Cox *Kyoko Fukada (恭子), a Japanese actress, model, and singer * Kyoko Hamaguchi (京子), a Japanese freestyle wrestler * Kyōko Hasegawa (京子), a Japanese actress *Kyoko Hayashi (京子), a Japanese author *Kyoko Hikami (恭子), a Japanese voice actre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyōko Kagawa
is a Japanese actress. During her career spanning 70 years, she has worked with directors like Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujirō Ozu and Mikio Naruse, appearing in films such as ''Tokyo Story'', ''Sansho the Bailiff'', '' The Bad Sleep Well'', '' Mothra'', and '' High and Low''. Biography Kagawa was born in Asō (currently Namegata), Ibaraki Prefecture, and graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Tenth High School for Girls in 1949. She was discovered in the "New Face Nomination" contest run by the '' Tokyo Shimbun'' in 1949 and gave her film debut the following year in ''Mado kara tobidase''. A prolific actress, she collaborated with directors like Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse, Kinuyo Tanaka, Hiroshi Shimizu, Shiro Toyoda, Kozaburo Yoshimura, Ishiro Honda, Yuzo Kawashima, Hiroshi Inagaki and Hirokazu Koreeda. Kagawa married in 1963. After appearing in Kurosawa's '' Red Beard'' (1965), she followed her husband, a reporter for the ''Yom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyōko Kishida
was a Japanese actress and voice actress. Biography Kishida was born in Tokyo in 1930 as the second daughter of playwright Kunio Kishida. Her older sister was the children's author and poet Eriko Kishida and she was cousins with actor Shin Kishida. She joined the Bungakuza theatre company in 1950, making her breakthrough in Yukio Mishima's stage production of Oscar Wilde's ''Salome''. In 1963, she left the Bungakuza and joined the Kumo Theatre Company. Kishida gave her film debut with a small role in Tadashi Imai's '' An Inlet of Muddy Water'' (1953). Her first leading film roles were in Hiroshi Teshigahara's ''Woman in the Dunes'' and Yasuzō Masumura's '' Manji'' (both 1964). Other film credits include Kon Ichikawa's '' Her Brother'' (1960), Yasujirō Ozu's ''An Autumn Afternoon'' (1962), Kaneto Shindō's '' Akuto'' (1965), Teshigahara's '' The Face of Another'' (1966) and '' Rikyu'' (1989), and Isao Yukisada's '' Spring Snow'' (2005), based on the Mishima novel of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyōko Hasegawa
is a Japanese model and actress. She married Haruichi Shindō, one of the members of the Japanese rock band Porno Graffitti, in 2008. On May 30, 2009 she gave birth to a boy. On January 25, 2012 she gave birth to a girl. In 2021, Hasegawa and Shindo announced that they had divorced. Appearances TV dramas *''Big Money!'' (2001) *''Sutaa no Koi'' (2001) *''Pretty Girls'' (2002) *''Kowloon de Aimashō'' (2002) *''Kanojotachi no Kurisumasu'' (2002) *''Itsumo futari de'' (2003) *'' Boku dake no Madonna'' (2003) *''Wonderful Life'' (2004) *'' Three Extremes'' (Box) (2004) *''Fuyu no Undōkai'' (2005) *''M no Higeki'' (2005) *'' Dragon Zakura'' (2005) *''Female'' (2005) *''Sanae Oishii puropōzu'' (2006) *''Kōmyō ga Tsuji'' (2006), Hosokawa Gracia *'' The Family'' (2007), Sanae Manpyo *''Scandal'' (2008) *'' Rain Fall'' (2009) *''Angel Bank as Ino Mamako'' (2010) *''Boss 2'' (2011) *''Ranma 1/2'' (2011) *'' Yae's Sakura'' (2013) *''Haitatsu Saretai Watashitachi'' (2013) *''Oh, My Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyoko Ariyoshi
is a Japanese '' shōjo'' manga artist.Nichigai Associates Editorial Department (1997), p. 25 She is well known for her works of ballet manga stories. Ariyoshi's representative work is ''Swan'' (21 volumes, Part 1, 1977–1980, and Part 2, 1980–1981), which depicted the heroine Masumi's growing up to the world-famous ballerina and got the great hit, won the high reputation among readers. Ariyoshi's other representative works are ''Swan -The Prayer of Swan-'' (1982–1983) and ''Applause'' which also depicted growing up of the young ballerinas with talent and potential. Life and works Ariyoshi was born in Kumamoto City, Kumamoto Prefecture.Weekly Bunshun ed. (2022), p. 130 She started contributions of her stories to commercial manga magazine and received letter of encouragement from editor of magazine.Weekly Bunshun ed. (2022), p. 134 After graduation of high school, she went to Tokyo when she was 19.Weekly Bunshun ed. (2022), pp. 135-136 Next year, she made debut with her w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyoko Hayashi
was a Japanese writer associated with the Atomic Bomb Literature genre. Biography Hayashi was born in Nagasaki and spent the years from 1931 to 1945 with her family in Shanghai. She returned to Nagasaki in 1945 and enrolled in Nagasaki Girls' High School, where she was mobilized in the Mitsubishi Munitions Factory. She was working at the factory when the atomic bomb destroyed Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Hayashi was seriously ill for two months, and suffered afterwards from fragile health. She later studied nursing in a special course the Welfare Faculty for Women attached to the Nagasaki Medical School, but left before graduation. She started to write in 1962. In 1967, her story ''Procession on a Cloudy Day'' (''Kumoribi no kōshin'') was published in ''Bungei Shuto''. She first drew wide attention in 1975 with an autobiographical story about the bombing, ''Ritual of Death'' (''Matsuri no ba''), which received that year's Akutagawa Prize. ''Two Grave Markers'' (''Futari No Bohy� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyoko Nakajima
is a Japanese writer. She has won the Naoki Prize, Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature, Shibata Renzaburo Prize, Kawai Hayao Story Prize, and Chuo Koron Literary Prize, and her work has been adapted for film. Early life and education Kyoko Nakajima was born in Suginami, Tokyo, Japan to parents who worked as university professors and translators of French literature. Her father was a professor at Chuo University, while her mother was a professor at Meiji University. Nakajima attended Tokyo Woman's Christian University. Career After graduating from university, she worked for several years in publishing as an editor at ''Ray'', '' Cawaii!'', and other lifestyle magazines. In 1996 she quit her job to spend a year in the United States, and upon her return to Japan in 1997 she began a new career as a freelance writer. While Nakajima worked on projects for clients, she was also working on several fiction manuscripts of her own. Her debut novel ''Futon'', which refers to work of the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyoko Mizuki
is one of the pen names of , a Japanese writer who is best known for being the author of the manga and anime series ''Candy Candy''. Kyoko Mizuki won the Kodansha Manga Award for Best '' Shōjo'' Manga for ''Candy Candy'' in 1977 with Yumiko Igarashi. Keiko Nagita won the Japan Juvenile Writers Association Prize for ''Rainette, Kin Iro no Ringo'' (''Rainette - The Golden Apples'') in 2007. Her short story ''Akai Mi Haziketa'' is printed in Japanese Primary School Textbook for 6th grade (''Mitsumura Tosho'' Publishing Co., Ltd.). Her picture book ''Shampoo Ōji'' series (art by Makoto Kubota) was adapted into an anime television series in October 2007. Biography When she was 12 years old, her father died. Then she created "imaginary family Andrews" to relieve her loneliness and wrote their stories on a notebook. Mizuki said: "I feel Andrews family have watched me affectionately. They are the origin of my story writing". She spent a few years as an actress of Shiki Theatre C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kano Sisters
and , known collectively as the , are Japanese media personalities. Early life and background The Kano sisters say they are half-sisters with different mothers. There is also a third "sister" who initially made appearances with the two. She eventually withdrew from the scene, according to industry sources, and now only intermittently appears with them. The lack of resemblance between them as well as their refusal to answer any questions about their age (even their reported ages are speculation) or past fuels speculation the three are not sisters at all, but just another group of tarento with a carefully crafted gimmick. Career Long before the Hiltons or the Kardashians got famous for being famous, Japan had been fascinated by the Kano sisters. In 1997, the oldest sister Kyoko debuted in ''25ans'', an upscale women's fashion magazine, together with her real (younger) sister H.K. as one of its ''"supaa dokusha"'' (super readers). This success led to various TV offers. H.K. did ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyoko Iwasaki
is a Japanese swimming coach and retired Olympic swimmer from Numazu, Shizuoka. She won the gold medal in the 200 metres breaststroke at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a pop .... She was 14 years and 6 days old, making her, as of prior to the 2024 games, the youngest Olympic gold medalist of all time in the discipline of swimming. References External links Kyoko Iwasaki's Official Blog "Kotoba no Shizuku" 1978 births Living people Japanese female breaststroke swimmers Olympic swimmers for Japan Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Japan Sportspeople from Numazu, Shizuoka Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists in swimming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |