Here again it was vacation time and there were many things I could not see, but I was able to visit with a professor who is famous in Japanese circles and be guided through the grounds by his assistant.

Other famous Japanese filmmakers from this period include Kenji Mizoguchi, Mikio Naruse, Hiroshi Inagaki and Nagisa Oshima.

He once wrote a paper under a pseudonym derived from Kobayashi Issa, a famous Japanese haiku poet.

Most old Japanese swords can be traced back to one of five provinces, each of which had its own school, traditions and " trademarks " ( e. g., the swords from Mino province were " from the start famous for their sharpness ").

was a famous martial artist and founder of the Japanese martial art of aikido.

* Fugu, the Japanese dish containing puffers meat, famous for its potent toxicity

About 100 men and women received the award, the most famous being newspaperman Ernie Pyle, who was awarded a posthumous Army Purple Heart after being killed by Japanese machine gun fire in 1945.

Other famous Japanese clay artists of this period include Dōnyū ( grandson of Chōjirō, also known as Nonkō ; 1574 – 1656 ), Hon ' ami Kōetsu ( 1556 – 1637 ) and Ogata Kenzan ( 1663 – 1743 ).

In 2004, while filming The Grudge in Japan, Gellar visited the famous Japanese swordsmith Shoji Yoshihara ( Kuniie III ) and bought a katana from him as a birthday present for her husband.

The famous waka poets of the day ( including Ki no Tsurayuki ) gathered the waka of ancient poets and their contemporaries and named the anthology " Kokin Wakashū ", meaning Collection of Ancient and Modern Japanese Poems.

* Theatre of Japan – traditional Japanese theater that are famous around the world including Noh, Kyogen, Kabuki, and Bunraku, or puppet theater.

* 1052: Fujiwara no Yorimichi converts the rural villa at Byōdō-in into a famous Japanese Buddhist temple.

* Jōchō, famous Japanese sculptor

On each show, a challenger, typically a famous chef from Japan or elsewhere, is pitted against one of the Iron Chefs ( with each Iron Chef specializing in a different kind of cuisine — Japanese, Chinese, French, and later Italian ).

Jomo Karuta ( Japanese: 上毛かるた, jōmō karuta ) is a variety of karuta which features history and famous locations in Gunma Prefecture.

This also being part of the Talking Karuta series, the narrations were recorded by famous Japanese actress Itida Hiromi, an expert in the Kyoto dialect in Japan.

Nursery Rhyme Cards ) is a version of karuta made of famous Japanese nursery rhymes sang to music to help young children learn the Japanese writing system called Hiragana.

Many famous people in Japanese history have been associated or identified as ninja, but their status as ninja are difficult to prove and may be the product of later imagination.

Ichijo's Wet Lust ( 1972 ), Japanese director Tatsumi Kumashiro's award-winning Roman porno film featured the country's most famous stripper, Sayuri Ichijō, starring as herself.

The P-38 was responsible for shooting down more Japanese aircraft than any other U. S. Army Air Forces type during the war ; and is particularly famous for being the airplane that shot down Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's airplane.

Models were produced by Japanese manufacturers Honda, Yamaha and Suzuki, and European companies such as Puch, Fantic, Gilera, Gitane and Garelli from 1972 onwards, the most famous of which was the Yamaha FS1-E.

Less famous are these airborne operations against the Japanese.

Japanese culture also commonly features monsters which are benevolent and / or likeable, with the most famous examples being the Pokémon franchise and the pioneering anime My Neighbor Totoro.

*, a famous woodblock print by Hokusai

A woodblock print by ukiyo-e master Utagawa Kuniyoshi depicting famous rōnin Miyamoto Musashi having his fortune told.

Hokusai, perhaps Japan's most famous woodblock print artist, also illustrated fiction as well as his famous 36 Views of Mount Fuji.

His pupil, Toyokuni I, took over after Toyoharu's death and raised the group to become the most famous and powerful woodblock print school for the remainder of the 19th century.

was a Japanese woodblock print artist, one of the most famous in the Ukiyo-e style.

For examples of death poems, see the articles on the famous haiku poet Bashō, the Japanese Buddhist monk Ryōkan, Ōta Dōkan ( builder of Edo Castle ), the monk Gesshū Sōko, and the Japanese woodblock master Tsukioka Yoshitoshi.

* Shigeru Mizuki has issued a series of limited-edition woodblock prints entitled " Fifty-Three Stations of the Yokaido Road ", re-interpreting the famous Hiroshige series " Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road " as " a haunted journey ".

A woodblock print of the most famous shirabyōshi, Shizuka who was the lover of Yoshitsune.

The Chester Beatty Library houses the famous collection of manuscripts, miniature paintings, prints, drawings, rare books and decorative arts assembled by American mining millionaire ( and honorary Irish citizen ) Sir Alfred Chester Beatty ( 1875 – 1968 ).

One of the most famous prints of the Caprichos

His most famous prints are his two series of prints each on " the Miseries and Misfortunes of War ".

Raphael made no prints himself, but entered into a collaboration with Marcantonio Raimondi to produce engravings to Raphael's designs, which created many of the most famous Italian prints of the century, and was important in the rise of the reproductive print.

The most famous original prints to result from the collaboration were Lucretia, the Judgement of Paris and The Massacre of the Innocents ( of which two virtually identical versions were engraved ).

Goya's series of 82 prints The Disasters of War ( 1810 – 20 ) remains the most famous and powerful depiction of the war and its effects on the civilian population.

Every Thanksgiving the editorial page prints two famous articles that have appeared there since 1961.

In Indonesia the caves at Maros in Sulawesi are famous for their hand prints, also recently found in 38 painted caves in the Sangkulirang area of Kalimantan.

Pepper-with famous figures from Liverpool history-as part of the successful campaign for Liverpool to become European Capital of Culture 2008, and is creating a series of prints to celebrate Liverpool's status.

Yet among the seventy-two prints outside his professed series there are at least a dozen famous ones.

He only produced one surviving engraving, the Battle of the Nude Men, but both in its size and sophistication this took the Italian print to new levels, and remains one of the most famous prints of the Renaissance.

Many of the writers of the day, such as Sherwood Anderson and Edith Wharton, wrote autobiographical articles about their first books and many artists now famous, such as Paul Landacre, Howard Cook, and Emil Ganso, provided original prints.

In the late 1840s, Kuniyoshi began again to illustrate actor prints, this time evading censorship ( or simply evoking creativity ) through childish, cartoon-like portraits of famous kabuki actors, the most notable being " Scribbling on the storehouse wall " ( Nitakaragurakabe no mudagaki ).

This is discussed by Seiichiro Takahashi in his famous " Traditional Woodblock Prints of Japan " which was published as part of The Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art ( Vol. 22, pages 98 – 102 with 7 prints depicted ).

Most famous of all are the hundreds of paintings and prints that make up the series Homage to the Square.

This has been reflected in the historical cheaper pricing of key Australian artists who worked on paper, including expressionist-surrealist Joy Hester, romanticist landscape painter Hans Heysen, modernists Frank and Muriel Medworth, landscape painters Albert Namatjira and Kenneth MacQueen, Bauhaus trained teacher Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack and the master printmaker Murray Griffin, famous for his prints of birds.

Reproduced in the form of prints, they rivalled Michelangelo's ceiling as the most famous and influential designs of the Renaissance, and were well known to all artists of the Renaissance and Baroque.

Perhaps the most famous example program from the book is its " hello, world " program, which just prints out the text " hello, world " to the terminal, as an illustration of a minimal working C program.

The painting collection includes religious art, particularly images of patron saint of the Order, St. John the Baptist, portraits of Grand Masters, Knights and clergy, sea and landscapes, depicting naval battles and views of Malta ; prints and drawings include portraits of the Knights, topographical views and maps showing the famous fortifications on their island homes, as well as prints of the English Priory and the surrounding area of Clerkenwell.

An error is any sort of production mistake that is ( potentially ) replicated on many stamps ; the famous Inverted Jenny is the best known of these, having resulted from a sheet of partial prints being accidentally re-inserted into the printing press upside down for the second color, resulting in an invert error.

In this way, one of fashions most famous collaborations was born: with Ossie Clark designing clothes and Celia Birtwell designing prints.

The origins of Gerard's Herball, famous for its detailed ( if sometimes inaccurate ) descriptions of plants, as well as the folklore contained in the articles regarding natural phenomena and its splendid prose and prints, are somewhat controversial.