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Toshiko is a feminine Japanese given name. Written forms Forms in kanji can include: *敏子 "agile/clever, child" *俊子 "genius, child" *淑子 "graceful/polite, child" *寿子 "longevity, child" *年子 "year/age, child" *歳子 "age/time, child" *稔子 "humble, child" The name can also be written in hiragana (としこ) or katakana (トシコ). People with the name *, Japanese politician *, Japanese musician (jazz pianist, composer, arranger, bandleader) *Toshiko D'Elia (1930–2014), American Masters athletics long distance runner *, Japanese singer and songwriter *, Japanese voice actress *, Japanese politician of the New Komeito Party *, Japanese swimmer *, Japanese communist politician *Toshiko Higashikuni (1896–1978), aka Princess Yasu aka Princess Toshiko, 9th daughter of the Japanese Emperor Meiji *, writer (poet) *, name birth of Japanese actress *, aka Toshiko Nakajima, Japanese feminist, writer (under the pen-name Shōen) *Toshiko Kohno, principal flutist ...
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Toshiko Akiyoshi
is an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader. Akiyoshi received fourteen Grammy Award nominations and was the first woman to win Best Arranger and Composer awards in ''Down Beat'' magazine's annual Readers' Poll. In 1984, she was the subject of the documentary ''Jazz Is My Native Language''. In 1996, she published her autobiography, ''Life with Jazz'', and in 2007 she was named an NEA Jazz Master by the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts. Biography Akiyoshi was born in Liaoyang, Manchuria, to a Japanese family, the youngest of four sisters. In 1945, after World War II, Akiyoshi's family lost their home and returned to Japan, settling in Beppu. A local record collector introduced her to jazz by playing a record of Teddy Wilson playing "Sweet Lorraine." She immediately loved the sound and began to study jazz. In 1953, during a tour of Japan, pianist Oscar Peterson discovered her playing in a club on the Ginza. Peterson was impressed and convinced record produ ...
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Toshiko Takaezu
Toshiko Takaezu (June 17, 1922 – March 9, 2011) was an American ceramic artist, painter, sculptor, and educator whose oeuvre spanned a wide range of mediums, including ceramics, weavings, bronzes, and paintings. She was noted for her pioneering work in ceramics and played an important role in the international revival of interest in the ceramic arts. Takaezu is known for her rounded, closed ceramic forms which broke from traditions of clay as a medium for functional objects. Instead she explored clay's potential for aesthetic expression, taking on Abstract Expressionist concepts in a manner that places her work in the realm of postwar abstractionism.Wechsler, Jeffrey, ''Asian Traditions, Modern Expressions: Asian American Artists and Abstraction 1945 - 1970'', exh. Cat. (New Brunswick: Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 1997), 174. She was of Japanese descent and from Pepeeko, Hawaii. A remarkable artist and influential teacher, Tak ...
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Toshiko Mori
Toshiko Mori (born 1951) is a Japanese architect and the founder and principal of New York–based Toshiko Mori Architect, PLLC and Vision Arc. She is also the Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. In 1995, she became the first female faculty member to receive tenure at the GSD. Education Mori graduated from Cooper Union in 1971, the Cooper Union School of Architecture in 1976. She then received an Honorary MArch from Harvard Graduate School of Design, in 1996. Career Prior to establishing her own firm, Mori worked for Edward Larrabee Barnes. She is licensed as an architect in Connecticut, Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Washington, D.C. At the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, she received tenure in 1995 and chaired the Department of Architecture from 2002 to 2008. Mori has taught at the graduate level at Cooper Union School ...
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Toshiko Hirata
Toshiko is a feminine Japanese given name. Written forms Forms in kanji can include: *敏子 "agile/clever, child" *俊子 "genius, child" *淑子 "graceful/polite, child" *寿子 "longevity, child" *年子 "year/age, child" *歳子 "age/time, child" *稔子 "humble, child" The name can also be written in hiragana (としこ) or katakana (トシコ). People with the name *, Japanese politician *, Japanese musician (jazz pianist, composer, arranger, bandleader) * Toshiko D'Elia (1930–2014), American Masters athletics long distance runner *, Japanese singer and songwriter *, Japanese voice actress *, Japanese politician of the New Komeito Party *, Japanese swimmer *, Japanese communist politician *Toshiko Higashikuni (1896–1978), aka Princess Yasu aka Princess Toshiko, 9th daughter of the Japanese Emperor Meiji *, writer (poet) *, name birth of Japanese actress *, aka Toshiko Nakajima, Japanese feminist, writer (under the pen-name Shōen) * Toshiko Kohno, principal flutis ...
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Toshiko Tamura
was an early modern feminist novelist who wrote during the late Meiji era, Taishō era, and early Shōwa era. She wrote under the pen-names Roei (露英), Child Bird (鳥の子, ''Tori no ko''), Toshiko Suzuki (鈴木 俊子, ''Suzuki Toshiko''), Yukari (優香里, ''Yukari''), Jun-Sheng (俊生), and Zuo Jun-zhi (佐俊芝), as well as under her maiden name Toshiko Satō (佐藤 俊子, ''Satō Toshiko'') and her married name Toshiko Tamura, by which she is best known. Her birth name was . Biography Tamura was born in the plebeian Asakusa district of Tokyo, where her father was a rice broker. At the age of seventeen she entered the literature faculty of ''Nihon Joshi Daigaku'' Japan Women's University. However, the long commute by foot, from her home affected her health and forced her to withdraw after only a single term. After this withdrawal, in 1902, she began her writing career as a disciple of Rohan Kōda. Under his tutelage, she published her first work in 1903. Howev ...
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Toshiko Kishida
, afterwards , was one of the first Japanese feminists. She wrote under the name . Early life and education Kishida Toshiko was born in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, in 1863. Kishida grew up in a merchant class family. Her father was Kishida Mohei, a secondhand clothing dealer, and her mother his wife Taka. In an early biography by Sōma Kokkō, it is noted that business travels kept her father from home, strengthening the bond between mother and daughter, and thus instilling Kishida's passion to improve women's status and promote their financial and social independence from their husbands. Kishida grew up during the Meiji- Taishō period, which lasted from 1868 through 1926. During this period Japanese leaders opened themselves up to new ideas and reformers called for "new rights and freedoms"."Women’s Rights from Past to Present" The women of this reformist movement are now known as "Japan’s first wave feminists". Kishida was one of these feminists. The focus of her movem ...
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Toshiko Fujita
was a Japanese actress, singer and narrator. She was affiliated with Aoni Production at the time of her death. Biography At the age of eight, Fujita worked in radio and television as an actress, singer and comedian. She also sang theme songs for anime, such as the 1969 adaptation of '' Dororo''. She was also a voice actor for anime series and films, often in works by Toei Animation and Nippon Animation. Notable roles included Ikkyu in '' Ikkyū-san'', Eiichi Kite in '' Kiteretsu Daihyakka'', Taichi Yagami in '' Digimon Adventure'', Mamiya in '' Fist of the North Star'', and Rui Kisugi in '' Cat's Eye''. In 1984, she received the award for "Best Voice Actor" in the 1st Nihon Anime Taishou. Later on in her career, her work was limited due to her poor physical condition and health problems. On December 28, 2018, it was announced that she had died of invasive breast cancer at the age of 68. Filmography Television animation ;1960s *'' Yūsei Shōnen Papii'' (1965–1966) ( ...
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Toshiko Higashikuni
, born , was the fourteenth child and ninth daughter of Emperor Meiji of Japan, and the seventh child and fifth daughter of Sono Sachiko, the Emperor's fifth concubine. Biography Toshiko was born in Japan, the daughter of Emperor Meiji and Lady Sachiko. She held the childhood appellation "Yasu no miya" (Princess Yasu). She married Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni on 18 May 1915. Emperor Meiji granted Prince Naruhiko the title ''Higashikuni-no-miya'' and permission to start a new branch of the imperial family before their marriage on 3 November 1906. The couple had four sons: #; married his first cousin Shigeko, Princess Teru, the eldest daughter of Emperor Shōwa and Empress Kōjun. #; died in the Great Kantō earthquake. #; renounced imperial title and created Marquis Awata Akitsune, 1940 #; relocated to Lins, São Paulo, Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and depend ...
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Toshiko Ueda
was a Japanese manga artist. After apprenticing under the manga artist Katsuji Matsumoto at the age of seventeen, Ueda published her first manga in 1937. Like her mentor, she drew mainly humorous manga, both in '' shōjo'' (girls) magazines and in the general press. She is, along with Machiko Hasegawa, one of the few female manga artists to begin their careers in the pre-war period. Born in the Empire of Japan, Ueda split her youth and early adulthood between Japan and Manchuria; her most popular manga series '' Fuichin-san'', serialized in the magazine '' Shōjo Club'' from 1957 to 1962, follows the life of a Chinese girl living in Manchuria. Ueda's time in Manchuria, from her idyllic childhood to the arrest and execution of her father during Japanese repatriation, was a significant influence on her manga. She was still actively publishing her manga series ''Ako-Bāchan'' (1973–2008) at the time of her death at the age of 90. Biography Early life (1917–1934) Toshiko ...
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Toshiko Uchima
Toshiko Uchima (Japanese 内間俊子) (26 October 1918 – 18 December 2000) was a Japanese-American artist. She worked in a variety of media, including collage, box assemblage, oil paintings, woodblock prints and drawings. Early life and career Uchima was born Toshiko Aohara on 26 October 1918 in Japanese-occupied northeast China and raised in the expatriate Japanese community in Dalian (known to the Japanese as "Dairen"), where she studied drawing and painting at the Dairen Art Studio.Wechsler, Jeffrey ed. Asian Traditions/Modern Expressions: Asian American Artists and Abstraction 1945-1970. (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1997). p. 178. After her family returned to Japan in the late 1930’s, she attended Kobe College and studied with the painter Ryōhei Koiso. In the early 1950’s, Uchima, living in Tokyo, exhibited oil paintings at the Yomiuri Independent ShowWatanuki Ltd./Toki-no-Wasuremono. Uchima Ansei and Uchima Toshiko. Exhibition Catalog, 2018, p. 19. and w ...
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Toshiko Shirasu-Aihara
is a retired Japanese gymnast. She competed in all artistic gymnastics events at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won a team bronze medal in 1964. Her best individual achievements were fourth places on the vault and uneven bars in 1964. Born Toshiko Shirasu, she changed her last name after marrying Nobuyuki Aihara, a fellow Olympic gymnast. Their son Yutaka Aihara won a bronze medal in gymnastics at the 1992 Olympics. References External links * * 1939 births Living people Japanese female artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for Japan Gymnasts at the 1960 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 1964 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Japan Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships 20th-century Japanese sportswomen {{Japan-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub ...
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Emperor Meiji
, posthumously honored as , was the 122nd emperor of Japan according to the List of emperors of Japan, traditional order of succession, reigning from 1867 until his death in 1912. His reign is associated with the Meiji Restoration of 1868, which ended the Tokugawa shogunate and began rapid changes that transformed Japan from an isolationist, feudal state to an industrialized great power, world power. Emperor Meiji was the first monarch of the Empire of Japan, and presided over the Meiji era. At the time of Mutsuhito's birth, Japan was a feudal and pre-industrial country dominated by the isolationist Tokugawa shogunate and the ''daimyō'' subject to it, who ruled over Japan's 270 decentralized han (Japan), domains. The opening of Japan to the West from 1854 fueled domestic demands for modernization, and when Mutsuhito became emperor after the death of his father Emperor Kōmei in 1867, it triggered the Boshin War, in which samurai (mostly from the Chōshū Domain, Chōshū and Sa ...
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