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Won Japanese descent. [23] First Asian nominated for Best Costume Design. First Asian to win Best Costume Design. 1955 Tadaoto Kainosho: Ugetsu: Nominated Japanese descent. [24] 1956 Kohei Ezaki: Seven Samurai: Nominated Japanese descent. [25] 1961 Yoshirō Muraki: Yojimbo: Nominated Tied for third most Oscar-nominated Asian of all time, with ...
Yatsuhashi Kengyō (八橋 検校; 1614–1685) was a Japanese musician and composer from Kyoto. The name kengyō is an honorary title given to highly skilled blind musicians. Yatsuhashi, who was born and died in Japan, was originally a player of the shamisen, but later learned the koto from a musician of the Japanese court. While the ...
Nobuyuki Tsujii (辻井 伸行, Tsujii Nobuyuki) (also known as Nobu Tsujii) is a Japanese pianist and composer.He was born blind due to microphthalmia.Tsujii performs extensively, with a large number of conductors and orchestras, and has received critical acclaim for his unique techniques for learning music and performing with an orchestra while being unable to see.
Kimio Eto (衛藤公雄, Etō Kimio) (surname Etō, born 28 September 1924 in Ōita – died 24 December 2012 [1]) was a blind Japanese musician who played the koto. He began musical training at the age of eight with the renowned master Michio Miyagi. When he was eleven, he composed his first work.
In Japan, Heike Biwa, a form of narrative music, was invented and spread during the Kamakura period (1185–1333) by traveling musicians known as biwa hoshi, who were often blind. These musicians played the biwa , a kind of lute, and recited stories, of which the most famous was The Tale of the Heike .
Eventually, hōshi referred to non-blind and blind performers and was also used as a suffix to a series of other types of people, such as dancing musicians (田楽法師, dengaku hōshi), Chinese-style entertainers (散楽法師, sarugaku hōshi), outcast artists (絵取り法師, edori hōshi), and men from Sanjō or men from temporary ...
Haru accepted anything that happened to her saying "if you walk with good people, its a festival; if you walk with bad people, its harsh training." [ 24 ] Sakuma wrote that Haru was a rare good-natured person, while other gozes thought that Haru was an exceptionally unlucky person. [ 25 ]
Hikari Ōe was born autistic [1] and developmentally disabled.Doctors tried to convince his parents to let their son die, but they refused to do so. Even after an operation, Ōe remained visually impaired, developmentally delayed, epileptic and with limited physical coordination.