Sugawara No Michizane

Sugawara No Michizane

male, deceased (903)
Sugawara no Michizane, also known as Kan Shōjō (菅丞相), was a scholar, poet, and politician of the Heian Period of Japan. He is regarded as an excel...
Stomu Yamashta

Stomu Yamashta

male, 62 years old
Stomu Yamashta (born "Yamashita Tsutomu",, 15 March 1947, Kyoto, Japan) is a Japanese percussionist, keyboardist and composer. He is sometimes...
Yosa Buson

Yosa Buson

male, deceased (1784)
Yosa Buson, or Yosa no Buson, was a Japanese poet and painter from the Edo period. Along with Matsuo Bashō and Kobayashi Issa, Buson is considered a...
Kusunoki Masashige

Kusunoki Masashige

male, deceased (1336)
Kusunoki Masashige was a 14th century samurai who fought for Emperor Go-Daigo in his attempt to wrest rulership of Japan away from the Kamakura...

Midori

female
Midori is a prominent human sexuality writer, speaker, and sex educator based in San Francisco, California. Her writings and contributions have...

Youcan

male
Youcan is a musician and singer song writer in Kyoto, Japan. His voice is very thin, melting into air, but it includes strong inner message....
Shubun

Shubun

male, deceased (1463)
Tensho Shubun (周文)(1414 - 1463) was a Japanese painter in the Muromachi period and a Zen Buddhist monk, and - for some time - abbot at the Shok...
Tomoyuki Tanaka

Tomoyuki Tanaka

male
is a J-pop artist/DJ, better known by his stage name of Fantastic Plastic Machine. He is considered to be part of the Shibuya-kei movement, drawing...
Abe No Seimei

Abe No Seimei

male, deceased (1005)
(921?-1005?) was an "onmyōji", a leading specialist of "onmyōdō" during the middle of the Heian Period in Japan. In addition to his prominence in...
Ashikaga Yoshiaki

Ashikaga Yoshiaki

male, deceased (1597)
was the 15th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate in Japan who reigned from 1568 to 1573. His father, Ashikaga Yoshiharu was the twelfth shogun, and...