Historical figures in Nara
The atlas holds 4 people and 4 moments here, from 1604 to 2022. The most recorded lives are Matsuo Bashō, Shinzo Abe and Hideki Yukawa. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Artists, across Edo Japan and the Age of Exploration.
Notable people
Hideki Yukawa
in 1942
1 moment here
Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate, awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics for predicting mesons.…
Matsuo Bashō
in 1685
1 moment 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 1604
1 moment here
Japanese swordsman, strategist, artist, and writer. His early biography and several event dates are disputed or preserved in later accounts; this…
Shinzo Abe
in 2022
1 moment here
Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2006 to 2007 and from 2012 to 2020.…
Moments
- 1604 Visit to Kōfuku-ji and duel in Nara Miyamoto Musashi
- 1685 Nara pilgrimage Matsuo Bashō
- 1942 Two-meson-theory hike at Todai-ji Hideki Yukawa
- 2022 Campaign speech and shooting Shinzo Abe