Pioneering organic farmer Masanobu Fukuoka, author of The One-Straw Revolution, developed his methods here on his family's farm.

This technique has been famously used by Sepp Holzer, Toby Hemenway, and Masanobu Fukuoka.

Other early influences include Ruth Stout and Esther Deans, who pioneered " no-dig gardening methods ", and Masanobu Fukuoka who, in the late 1930s in Japan, began advocating no-till orchards, gardens and natural farming.

* Fukuoka, Masanobu.

* Greening The Desert: Applying natural farming techniques in Africa, interview with Masanobu Fukuoka ( retrieved 30 November 2010 )

* Masanobu Fukuoka and Natural Farming, Gandhi Foundation ( retrieved 4 December 2010 )

* Masanobu Fukuoka: Japanese Organic Farmer, Mother Earth News magazine ( retrieved 4 December 2010 )

* Farmer Philosopher Masanobu Fukuoka, part 1, 2, 3 ; Japan Economic Forum ( retrieved 9 April 2011 )

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Masanobu Fukuoka as part of his early experiments on his family farm in Japan experimented with no-pruning methods, noting that he ended up killing many fruit trees by simply letting them go which resulted in convoluted and tangled, and thus unhealthy, branch patterns.

Masanobu Fukuoka started his pioneering research work in this domain in 1938, and began publishing in the 1970s his Fukuokan philosophy of " Do Nothing Farming ", which is now acknowledged by some as the tap root of the Permaculture movement.

* Masanobu Fukuoka

* Masanobu Ōkubo as the bandit on the roof

* ' To Live on Earth-Fukuoka Masanobu visits India '.

The song's composer, Masanobu Tokuchi, was born on Okinawa Island and grew up in Amami and became an important figure for introducing the Ryukyu Islands ' music into the Japanese mainstream.

In the Ikki ranks where some of Motoyasu's vassals, like Honda Masanobu, who had turned over to the Ikki rebellion on religious sympathy.

Takushiro Hattori and Masanobu Tsuji, each of whom had recently visited Guadalcanal, told their colleagues on the staff that any further attempt to retake the island was a lost cause.

Sections by Kosaka Masanobu express his views on the warrior code in relation to the connection between lord and vassal.

* August 2 – Kano Masanobu, chief painter of the Ashikaga shogunate ( b. 1434 )

On August 10, 2000, All Japan mainstay Masanobu Fuchi walked into the New Japan Pro Wrestling ring and declared that his intention was to " break down the walls " between All Japan and New Japan.

On March 1, 2008 Funk and Nishimura defeated Genichiro Tenryu and Masanobu Fuchi in Funk's retirement match via Spinning toe hold.

On June 19, 2000, it was confirmed ( at a press conference at All-Japan's dojo held by Toshiaki Kawada and Masanobu Fuchi ) that NTV has decided to discontinue broadcasting All Japan after 27 years.

* " Seed Balls by Masanobu Fukuoka 1997 " YouTube 18: 43 long video, caption: " Natural Farmer Masanobu Fukuoka conducts a workshop for making seed balls at his natural farm and forest in Japan.

The Kōshū Hatto, composed at some point in the 15th century, is the code of law of the Takeda family, while the Kōyō Gunkan, composed largely by Kōsaka Masanobu in the mid-16th century, is an epic poem recording the family's history and Shingen's innovations in military tactics.

The son of Abe Masanobu, Masakatsu served Ieyasu from a young age, first accompanying him to Sunpu as a hostage.

Her farming methods were inspired by Masanobu Fukuoka after reading his book ; " The One-Straw Revolution " in 1977 after it was first translated into English.

Masanobu Tsuji was regarded as the most notorious Japanese war criminal to escape trial after the war.

From the 15th century Muromachi period come the Chinese-style hanging scroll Zhou Maoshu Appreciating Lotuses by Kanō Masanobu ( illustrated above ), and a six-section screen by Kano Hideyori of Maple Viewers, an early Kanō example of Yamato-e subject matter.

Directed and written by Kazuki Ōmori, with special effects by Koichi Kawakita, the film starred Yoshiko Tanaka, Masanobu Takashima, and Megumi Odaka.

File: Zhou Maoshu Appreciating Lotuses. jpg | Kanō Masanobu, 15th-century founder of the Kanō school, Zhou Maoshu Appreciating Lotuses, Japanese

He was married to Minamoto no Rinshi / Michiko ( 源倫子 ), daughter of Sadaijin Minamoto no Masanobu.

** Honda Masanobu, commander and daimyo ( b. 1538 )

** Kano Masanobu, Japanese painter ( d. 1530 )

Two sons of Prince Atsumi, Masanobu and Shigenobu became sadaijin.

Several famous swordsmen ( including Tsukahara Bokuden and Matsumoto Bizen no kami Masanobu ) who learned directly from Chōi-sai or his immediate followers became founders of their own schools, with either the same name ( Shintō, written with a variety of other characters ) or different names: Kashima Shintō-ryū ( Bokuden-ryū ), Kashima-ryū, Kashima shin-ryū ( founded by Matsumoto ), Arima-ryū, Ichiu-ryū, Shigen-ryū, and others.

This was a Meitoku Yagi's, Masanobu Shinjo, and Morio Higaonna's specialty kata.

However, the general in command of the castle, Kosaka Danjo Masanobu, through a system of signal fires, informed his lord, in Tsutsujigasaki fortress, 130 km away in Kōfu, of Kenshin's move.

Kōsaka Danjo Masanobu left Kaizu with 8, 000 men, advancing up Saijoyama under cover of night, intending to drive Kenshin's army down to the plain where Takeda Shingen would be waiting with another 8, 000 men in kakuyoku, or " crane's wing ", formation.

There was also a growing subversion within Homma's command by a small group of insubordinates, under the influence of Colonel Tsuji Masanobu.

The school was founded by the very long-lived Kanō Masanobu ( 1434 – 1530 ), who was the son of Kagenobu, a samurai and amateur painter.

Masanobu was a contemporary of Sesshū ( 1420 – 1506 ), a leader of the revival of Chinese influence, who had actually visited China in mid-career, in around 1467.

Masanobu began his career in Shūbun's style, and works are recorded between 1463 and 1493.