Famous People with Name Yoshida

Yoshida Naramaru            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yoshida Naramaru: was a notable rokyoku, or streetcorner singer of the late nineteenth century in Japan. The type of singing practiced by Naramura diffused throughout the country, and its origin can be traced to the Osaka metropolis.[2] Whether Naramura himself was responsible for the diffusion of this unique musical type, or whether he was only a part of the tradition is uncertain, but what could be said at least is that he achieved a degree of reputation as a singer of this genre.

Yoshida Kenko            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yoshida Kenko: was a Japanese author and Buddhist monk. His most famous work is "Tsurezuregusa" ("Essays in Idleness"), one of the most studied works of medieval Japanese literature. Kenko wrote during the Muromachi and Kamakura periods.Kenko was probably born in 1283, the son of an administration official. His original name was Urabe Kaneyoshi (????). He became an officer of guards at the Imperial palace. Late in life he retired from public life, changed his name to Yoshida Kenko, and became a Buddhist monk and hermit. The reasons for this are unknown, but it has been conjectured that either his unhappy love for the daughter of the prefect of Iga Province or his mourning over the death of Emperor Go-Uda caused his transformation.

Yoshida Shoin            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yoshida Shoin: was one of the most distinguished intellectuals in the closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate. He devoted to developing many Ishin Shishi who made an outstanding contribution to the Meiji Restoration.Apprehensive of their ways, Yoshida tried to learn the ways of the West. Matthew Perry visited Japan in 1853 and 1854. Shortly before Perry left, Yoshida and a friend went to Shimoda where Perry's 'black ships' were anchored, and tried to gain admittance. They first presented a letter asking to be let aboard one of his ships. In the dead of night Yoshida tried to secretly climb aboard. Perry's troops noticed them, and they were refused.[1] Shortly thereafter, they were caged by Tokugawa bakufu troops. Even in a cage, they managed to smuggle a written message to Perry. Yoshida Shoin was sent to a jail in Edo, then to one in Hagi where he was sentenced to house arrest.

Ken'ichi Yoshida            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Ken'ichi Yoshida: a Japanese animator and illustrator. He is a graduate of Tokyo Designer Gakuin College.[1] He is a member of Japan Animation Creators Association (JAniCA).[1]Upon joining Studio Ghibli in 1990, Yoshida worked on Only Yesterday and Porco Rosso.[1][2] In 1999, he left Studio Ghibli to become freelance.[1][2] Currently, he is focusing on working on Sunrise and Bones works.[1] He is good friends with fellow animator Akira Yasuda (Akiman) and has collaborated with him in numerous productions.[1]

Isoya Yoshida            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Isoya Yoshida: was a Japanese architect. He graduated from Tokyo Art School (now Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music) in 1923. His style, known as sukiya, combines elements of traditional Japanese architecture and modernist architecture.

Ami Yoshida            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Ami Yoshida: a Japanese musician.Yoshida does not play instruments, instead making her music with her own voice. Rather than conventional singing she makes a variety of vocalisations of such a nature that it is often hard to tell that the sounds are being produced by a voice at all. These sounds are sometimes subtly electronically altered. She describes her means of producing sound as the "howling voice".Her records include Spiritual Voice (1997) and the thirteen track, four-minute EP . (2002, released on a business-card sized CD). Her 2003 release, Tiger Thrush on the Improvised Music from Japan label, includes 99 untitled tracks.

Mitsuru Yoshida            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Mitsuru Yoshida: was a Japanese author and naval officer. He was born in Tokyo. He was the senior surviving officer on the battleship Yamato when it was sunk on 7 April 1945 during Operation Ten-Go, an attempt to support the defenders of Okinawa.His best known work is Senkan Yamato-no Saigo (???????, The Last Days of Battleship Yamato), based on his personal experiences as a junior officer on Yamato's final voyage. It was made into a movie Senkan Yamato ("Battleship Yamato" Shin-Toho. Dir.: Yutaka Abe) in 1953. Another movie Otoko-tachi no Yamato was released in 2005.

Shuichi Yoshida            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Shuichi Yoshida: a Japanese novelist.Shuichi Yoshida was born in Nagasaki, and studied Business Administration at Hosei University. He won the Bungakukai Prize for New Writers in 1997 for his story "Saigo no Musuko", and the Akutagawa Prize in 2002 (the fifth time he'd been nominated for the prize) for "Park Life". In 2002 he also won the Yamamoto Prize for Parade, and for winning both literary and popular prizes Yoshida was seen as a crossover writer, like Amy Yamada or Masahiko Shimada. In 2003 he wrote lyrics for the song "Great Escape" on Tomoyasu Hotei's album, 'Doberman'. His 2007 novel, Akunin, won the Osaragi Jiro Prize and the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award.