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Ryōji Akiyama
is a Japanese photographer known for his work in Tsugaru and New York.''Nihon shashinka jiten'' () / ''328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers''. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. . He has also written about photography. Books by Akiyama *''Tsugaru: Ryōji-sensei gyōjōki'' (). Hirosaki: Tsugaru Shobō, 1978. Photographs of Tsugaru. *''Nyūyōku tsūshin: Akiyama Ryōji shashin'' (). Tokyo: Bokusuisha, 1980. Photographs of New York City. *你好小朋友 ''Chūgoku no kodomotachi: Akiyama Ryōji shashinshū'' (). Tokyo: Sakura Family Club, 1983. Photographs of children in China. *''Narakawa-mura'' (). Tokyo: Asahi-shinbunsha, 1991. . Photographs of Narakawa (Nagano prefecture). *''Fotokontesuto hisshō gaido'' () / ''Photo Contest Success Guide.'' Reberu-appu mook. Tokyo: Gakken, 1995. . *''Fotokontesuto hisshō: Kodomo no torikata'' (). Reberu-appu mook. Tokyo: Gakken, 1998. . *''Kodomo no shashin no torikata: Kawaiku toru kihon kara fotokontesuto chōsen made''(). Tokyo: Gakken, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsugaru Peninsula
The is a peninsula in Aomori Prefecture, at the northern end of Honshū island, Japan. The peninsula projects north into the Tsugaru Strait separating Honshū from Hokkaidō. The western coast is on the Sea of Japan, while on its eastern coast are Aomori Bay and Mutsu Bay. The peninsula is bisected from Cape Tappi at its northern end to the Hakkōda Mountains on its southern end by the Tsugaru Mountains. Across the Tsugaru strait to the north is Hokkaidō's Matsumae Peninsula, to which it is linked by the Seikan Tunnel. History In the Edo period, the peninsula was part of the Hirosaki Domain and was ruled by the Tsugaru clan. Traditionally one of the poorest and remotest areas of Japan, Tsugaru is best known as the birthplace of writer Osamu Dazai, who wrote the mordant travelogue '' Tsugaru'' about his travels around the peninsula, and for the '' Tsugaru-jamisen'', a distinctive local version of the Japanese string instrument shamisen. After the defeat of Aizu during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Books By Akiyama Ryōji
A book is a structured presentation of recorded information, primarily verbal and graphical, through a medium. Originally physical, electronic books and audiobooks are now existent. Physical books are objects that contain printed material, mostly of writing and images. Modern books are typically composed of many pages bound together and protected by a cover, what is known as the ''codex'' format; older formats include the scroll and the tablet. As a conceptual object, a ''book'' often refers to a written work of substantial length by one or more authors, which may also be distributed digitally as an electronic book (ebook). These kinds of works can be broadly classified into fiction (containing invented content, often narratives) and non-fiction (containing content intended as factual truth). But a physical book may not contain a written work: for example, it may contain ''only'' drawings, engravings, photographs, sheet music, puzzles, or removable content like paper dolls. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
