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Marie Curie (1867–1934) physicist and chemist, First woman to win a Nobel Prize. Satō Eisaku (1901–1975) Prime Minister of Japan. Sanada Yukimura (1567–1615) Samurai warrior of the Sengoku period. Cao Cao (155–220) Chinese warlord and the penultimate Chancellor of the Eastern Han dynasty.
Hokusai. Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎, c. 31 October 1760 – 10 May 1849), known monomously as Hokusai, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. [1] He is best known for the woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, which includes the iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa.
Miyamoto Musashi (宮本 武蔵), born Shinmen Takezō (新免 武蔵, c. 1584 – 13 June 1645), [1] also known as Miyamoto Bennosuke and by his Buddhist name, Niten Dōraku, [2] was a Japanese swordsman, strategist, artist, and writer who became renowned through stories of his unique double-bladed swordsmanship and undefeated record in his 62 ...
Shogun (English: / ˈʃoʊɡʌn / SHOH-gun; [ 1 ] Japanese: 将軍, romanized:shōgun, pronounced [ɕoːɡɯɴ] ⓘ), officially sei-i taishōgun (征夷大将軍, " Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Force Against the Barbarians"), [ 2 ] was the title of the military rulers of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868. [ 3 ]
Daimyo. Daimyo (大名, daimyō, Japanese pronunciation: [daimʲoː] ⓘ) were powerful Japanese magnates, [1] feudal lords [2] who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast hereditary land holdings. They were subordinate to the shogun and nominally to the emperor and the ...
History of Japan. The first human inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago have been traced to the Paleolithic, around 38–39,000 years ago. [ 1 ] The Jōmon period, named after its cord-marked pottery, was followed by the Yayoi period in the first millennium BC when new inventions were introduced from Asia.
Mikimoto Kokichi (1858–1954), founder of Mikimoto. Soichiro Honda (1906–1991), co-founder of the automobile manufacturer Honda. Jujiro Matsuda (1875-1952), founder of Mazda automobile company. Michio Suzuki (1887–1982), founder of Suzuki. Eiji Toyoda (1913–2013), founder of luxury automobile manufacturer Lexus.
The Great Wave off Kanagawa (Japanese: 神奈川沖浪裏, Hepburn: Kanagawa-oki Nami Ura, lit. 'Under the Wave off Kanagawa')[ a ] is a woodblock print by Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai, created in late 1831 during the Edo period of Japanese history. The print depicts three boats moving through a storm-tossed sea, with a large, cresting wave ...