Kyoto in the Cold War
The atlas holds 9 people and 12 moments here, from 1948 to 1981. The most recorded lives are Hideki Yukawa, Yasunari Kawabata and Andy Warhol.
Notable people
Abebe Bikila
in 1965
1 moment here
Ethiopian marathon runner and Imperial Guard officer who won Olympic marathon gold in Rome in 1960 and Tokyo in 1964, both in world-record time.…
Akira Kurosawa
in 1968
1 moment here
Japanese filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, editor, and painter. Kurosawa directed 30 feature films between 1943 and 1993, including Rashomon, Seven…
Alan MacDiarmid
in 1975
1 moment here
New Zealand-American chemist and 2000 Nobel laureate in Chemistry, known for co-developing conductive polymers.…
Andy Warhol
in 1956
1 moment here
American artist and filmmaker whose work helped define Pop art. Born in Pittsburgh, Warhol studied there before moving to New York in 1949.…
Dorothy Hodgkin
in 1972
1 moment here
English chemist and X-ray crystallographer Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin determined major biomolecular structures including penicillin, vitamin B12,…
Hideki Yukawa
from 1950 to 1981
3 moments here
Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate, awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics for predicting mesons.…
Italo Calvino
in 1976
1 moment here
Italian novelist, short-story writer, editor, journalist, and member of Oulipo. Born in Cuba, raised chiefly in Sanremo, and active across Italy,…
Yasunari Kawabata
from 1961 to 1968
2 moments here
Japanese novelist and short-story writer, Nobel laureate in Literature in 1968. His documented movements include an Osaka and Ibaraki childhood,…
Yayoi Kusama
in 1948
1 moment here
Japanese avant-garde artist, novelist, and performance artist known for polka dots, Infinity Net paintings, immersive mirror rooms, and public…
Moments
- 1948 Nihonga study in Kyoto Yayoi Kusama
- 1950 At Kyoto University Hideki Yukawa
- 1953 Director of Kyoto research institute Hideki Yukawa
- 1956 World journey stop in Kyoto Andy Warhol
- 1961 Kyoto residence while writing The Old Capital Yasunari Kawabata
- 1965 Second Mainichi Marathon victory Abebe Bikila
- 1968 Kōetsukai participation before Nobel trip Yasunari Kawabata
- 1968 Medical examination during Tora! Tora! Tora! production Akira Kurosawa
- 1972 Congress and lecture in Kyoto Dorothy Hodgkin
- 1975 Visiting professor at Kyoto University Alan MacDiarmid
- 1976 Japan itinerary including Kyoto Italo Calvino
- 1981 Death at home in Sakyo-ku Hideki Yukawa