Historical figures in Nagoya
The atlas holds 9 people and 18 moments here, from 1534 to 2002. The most recorded lives are Oda Nobunaga, Matsuo Bashō and Hokusai. Among them Artists, Architects and Writers, across the Age of Exploration and Edo Japan.
Notable people
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,…
Hokusai
from 1812 to 1817
2 moments here
Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, painter, and printmaker. His documented physical-presence chronology is concentrated in…
Ichirou Mizuki
in 2002
1 moment here
Japanese singer, lyricist, composer, voice actor, and actor, born Toshio Hayakawa. Known as the “Emperor of Anime Songs,” Mizuki recorded theme songs…
Matsuo Bashō
from 1684 to 1688
3 moments here
Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694) was a Japanese poet of the Edo period, renowned for haikai and for travel writing including Oku no Hosomichi.…
Miyamoto Musashi
in 1628
1 moment here
Japanese swordsman, strategist, artist, and writer. His early biography and several event dates are disputed or preserved in later accounts; this…
Oda Nobunaga
from 1534 to 1558
5 moments here
Japanese samurai and daimyō who rose from Owari Province to become one of the principal military and political unifiers of sixteenth-century Japan.…
Tokugawa Ieyasu
from 1584 to 1615
2 moments here
Japanese samurai, daimyo, and founder of the Tokugawa shogunate. Born Matsudaira Takechiyo at Okazaki Castle, he spent part of his childhood as a…
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
from 1537 to 1582
2 moments here
Japanese samurai, daimyō, imperial regent, and chancellor who rose from a humble background under Oda Nobunaga to unify most of Japan.…
Yasunari Kawabata
in 1968
1 moment here
Japanese novelist and short-story writer, Nobel laureate in Literature in 1968. His documented movements include an Osaka and Ibaraki childhood,…
Moments
- 1534 Birth in Nagoya Oda Nobunaga
- 1537 Birth in Nakamura Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- 1553 Battle under Kiyosu Castle Oda Nobunaga
- 1554 Muraki Castle campaign Oda Nobunaga
- 1554 New seat at Kiyosu Castle Oda Nobunaga
- 1558 Victory at Ukino Oda Nobunaga
- 1582 Kiyosu succession assembly Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- 1584 Meeting at Kiyosu Castle Tokugawa Ieyasu
- 1615 Journey to Nagoya before the Summer Siege Tokugawa Ieyasu
- 1628 Meeting with Yagyū Hyōgonosuke Miyamoto Musashi
- 1684 Haikai gathering in Nagoya Matsuo Bashō
- 1685 Departure from Narumi Matsuo Bashō
- 1688 Departure from Nagoya for Sarashina Matsuo Bashō
- 1812 Journey to Nagoya and manga sketches Hokusai
- 1817 Painting the Great Daruma Hokusai
- 1968 Meeting with Arakawa Toyozō Yasunari Kawabata
- 1972 Insulin lecture at Nagoya University Dorothy Hodgkin
- 2002 Nagoya Dome ceremonial first pitch Ichirou Mizuki