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  Okamoto Kanoko information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Okamoto Kanoko (岡本 かの子, March 1,1889 - February 18,1939) was a Japanese author, tanka poet, and Buddhism scholar.
In 1910, she married cartoonist Okamoto Ippei and their son, the famous avant-garde painter Okamoto Taro, was born the next year.
Kanoko stayed at an inn near Kamakura station in the summer of 1923, and it was there that she met Akutagawa Ryunosuke.
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  Okamoto Kanoko - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Okamoto Kanoko (岡本 かの子, March 1, 1889 - February 18, 1939) was a Japanese author, tanka poet, and Buddhism scholar during the Taisho and Showa periods.
In 1910, she married cartoonist Okamoto Ippei and their son, the famous avant-garde painter Okamoto Taro, was born the next year.
Kanoko stayed at an inn near Kamakura station in the summer of 1923, and it was there that she met Akutagawa Ryunosuke.
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 Okamoto Kanoko かまくら GreenNet
Okamoto Kanoko, novelist, poet and Buddhism scholar, was born in Tokyo in 1889.
Her husband was Okamoto Ippei, the caricaturist, and her son, Okamoto Taro, the avant-garde painter.
After returning home, Kanoko was overwhelmed by her work as a researcher of Buddhism, but she found time to write Tsuru wa yamiki (1936, The Dying Crane), a novelette about the last days of the writer Akutagawa Ryunosuke, for the influential magazine Bungakukai, which gained her a foothold into the literary world.
www.city.kamakura.kanagawa.jp /bunka/bunjinroku/okamoto_e.htm   (302 words)

  
 WWW.VICMART.COM 1979 Japan TARO OKAMOTO watercolor painting ! in > Paintings > Art - antiques, antique, collectible, ...
Biography: Taro Okamoto was born in Tokyo, the eldest son of cartoonist Ippei Okamoto and the poet and novelist Kanoko Okamoto.
Okamoto served in the military from 1942-1946, returning to Tokyo to find many of his paintings burned in an air raid.
A recent sale of a Taro Okamoto painting at Sotheby's during the time while Okamoto was still alive fetched a result of over $8,000.
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 Kanoko Okamoto Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
From the iconography of the goldfish in Japanese art and design to commentary on unique goldfish breeds, and including an exclusive publication of the 1930s short story "A Riot of Fish" by Kanoko Okamoto, "Kingyo" is the ultimate gift book for the season.
Kanoko Okamoto was one of the most prominent writers of pre-war Japan.
The elegant and impressionistic stories were written and published during the last three years of her life, and have recently been re-issued in her homeland.
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 Okamoto Kanoko (岡本かの子) memorial #396 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Okamoto Kanoko (岡本かの子) memorial #396 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Memorial to 岡本かの子(Okamoto Kanoko): sculpture by her son 岡本太郎(Okamoto Tarō); base by architect 丹下健三(Tange Kenzō)
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 Aozora Bunko: R - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ren'aitoiumono by Kanoko Okamoto (March 1, 1889–February 18, 1939)
Rigyo by Kanoko Okamoto (March 1, 1889–February 18, 1939)
Rougishou by Kanoko Okamoto (March 1, 1889–February 18, 1939)
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 Summaries of Papers Presented at the 2001 ATJ Seminar
From a pedagogical point of view, it is important to incorporate the teaching of such strategies in classroom instruction to enhance learners' communicative competence.
Okamoto Kanoko (1889-1939) is a Japanese modernist novelist who is particularly significant in this context.
Although she is not generally considered to be a modernist writer, her prose fiction presents significant characteristics of Japanese literary modernism through a mixture of Japanese elements and Western ideas.
www.colorado.edu /ealld/atj/Newsletter/News24-2/papers.html   (7175 words)

  
 artnet.com: Resource Library: Okamoto, Taro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
His father, Ippei Okamoto (1886–1948), was a cartoonist, and his mother, Kanoko Okamoto, was a poet and novelist.
From the following year Okamoto studied philosophy at the Université de Paris.
At the same time the paintings of Picasso had a tremendous impact on him and he decided to become a painter.
www.artnet.com /library/06/0633/T063357.asp   (329 words)

  
 Reading Room Index to the Comic Art Collection
Call no.: PN6707.G39 1997 ----------------------------------------------------- Okamoto, Ippei, 1886-1948.
Anne Rice's The Vampire Lestat / based on the novel by Anne Rice ; adapted and designed by Faye Perozich ; pencils by Joseph Lieaneaus Phillips, Daerick Gross, Michael Okamoto ; painted by Daerick Gross ; lettered by Vickie Williams -- Wheeling, WV : Innovative Corporation, 1990-1991.
On a Pale Horse / from the novel by Piers Anthony ; adapted by David Campiti ; painted by Mike Okamoto.
www.lib.msu.edu /comics/rri/orri/oi.htm   (5570 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : To Live and to Write: Selections by Japanese Women Writers 1913-1938: Livres en anglais: Yukiko ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Divorce, sexual desire, hunger, Marxist politics and women's conflicting roles also provide themes for these unusually strong tales.
Okamoto Kanoko, a flamboyant esthete, writes about a self-absorbed female artist whose inner strength overwhelms her inferior male friend.
Hayashi Fumiko, a poor pedlar's daughter with poetic flair, relates with vivid detachment a woman's battle to rise above destitution.
www.amazon.fr /Live-Write-Selections-Japanese-1913-1938/dp/0931188431   (328 words)

  
 papertigers | essential reading
My friend Bashabi Fraser and I had great fun selecting over a 100 poems by more than 80 poets for an anthology for children of 8 and above, that would celebrate our 'rainbow world' with its rich colour, natural beauty and amazing diversity.
The work of Rabindranath Tagore from India, Australian Aborigine W Les Russell, Den Sute-Jo and Okamoto Kanoko from Japan, Ho Chi Minh from Vietnam, Begum Sufia Kamal from Bangladesh, and many other poets has enriched the book.
A review in The Times EducationalSupplement spoke of "this book earning a valued place on the bookshelf...and indeed becoming a much dipped into resource." Rainbow World was an EMMA 2004 Best Book Award Runner-up.
www.papertigers.org /personalViews/archiveViews/DChatterjee.html   (1446 words)

  
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Cody Poulton is an associate professor in the Department of Pacific and Asian Studies at the University of Victoria.
He has written on and translated works by a number of modern Japanese writers, including Izumi Kyoka, Shiga Naoya, Okamoto Kanoko and Kara Juro.
He is the author of a book on Kyoka's drama, Spirits of Another Sort.
www.iar.ubc.ca /centres/cjr/archive/tsurubk.html   (991 words)

  
 Kingyo : The Artistry of Japanese Goldfish by Kanoko Okamoto, Sachiko Kuru (Photographer), Kazuya Takaoka (Illustrator) ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Kingyo : The Artistry of Japanese Goldfish by Kanoko Okamoto, Sachiko Kuru (Photographer), Kazuya Takaoka (Illustrator) - 4770023030
Kanoko Okamoto, Sachiko Kuru (Photographer), Kazuya Takaoka (Illustrator)
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 Nin and Okamoto (1985) The White blackbird and other writings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Nin and Okamoto (1985) The White flbird and other writings
Japan; Social life and customs; Fiction; Okamoto, Kanoko; Translations into English
Texts bound together back to back and inverted.
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 Amazon.com: Kingyo: The Artistry of Japanese Goldfish: Books: Kanoko Okamoto,Kazuya Takaoka,Sachiko Kuru,J. Keith ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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by Kanoko Okamoto, Kazuya Takaoka, Sachiko Kuru, J.
Kingyo: The Artistry of Japanese Goldfish by Kanoko Okamoto
www.amazon.com /Kingyo-Japanese-Goldfish-Kanoko-Okamoto/dp/4770023030   (1270 words)

  
 Lesson Plan 13   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Part I: Brainstorming: with a partner, make a list of the literary works for which you would like to find full text in electronic form.
Guided searching: Students look for original text of a work by Okamoto Kanoko containing the word 金魚 in the title.
Sharing search results: Students discuss how they found the work
www.fas.harvard.edu /~ncc/eresources/lessonplans/lessonplan13.html   (244 words)

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