Eisai

male
Dōgen, Okayama, Okayama, okayama, Tiantai, Japanese, Rinzai Zen
Myōan Eisai was a Japanese Buddhist priest, credited with bringing the Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism and green tea from China to Japan. He is o...

Timothy Hemion

male, 48 years old
Cornell University, mathematician, cambridge university, British, mathematics, Crime writer…okayama, Okayama, Okayama
Timothy Hemion (b. 1961, England) is a British author of detective fiction set in Okayama, Japan, featuring Inspector Morimoto and his sidekick...
Hyakken Uchida

Hyakken Uchida

male, deceased (1971)
Sarasāte no ban, Disk of Sarasate, Eizo Uchida, Uchida Eizo, Imperial Japanese Army Academy, Okayama Prefecture…from Okayama Prefecture, Okayama, Okayama, okayama, born in Okayama, Japan
was a Japanese author and academic. He was born in Okayama, to a family of sake brewers whose business later went bankrupt. His real name is Eizo...

Junnosuke Yoshiyuki

male, deceased (1994)
Yoshiyuki Eisuke, from Okayama Prefecture, prostitution, Short story writer, okayama, Japanese…Okayama, Okayama
was a Japanese novelist and short-story writer. Yoshiyuki was born in Okayama, the oldest child of author Yoshiyuki Eisuke, but moved to Tokyo at...
Toku Hime

Toku Hime

male, deceased (1615)
Ikeda Terumasa, Tokugawa clan, Shinano province, okayama, kai, Japanese nobility…Okayama, Okayama
Toku-hime was a princess during the Sengoku and Edo periods of Japanese history. The second daughter of Tokugawa Ieyasu, she was also known as...