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Hōjō Maki. Hōjō Maki may refer to: Hōjō Maki (北条 牧, 牧の方), also Hōjō no Maki, wife of Hōjō Tokimasa, the first Shikken of Japan, and mother of Hōjō Masako the wife of Shōgun Minamoto no Yoritomo. Category: Human name disambiguation pages.
Hōjō Masako. Hōjō Masako (北条 政子, 1157 – August 16, 1225) was a Japanese politician who exercised significant power in the early years of the Kamakura period, which was reflected by her contemporary sobriquet of the "nun shogun". She was the wife of Minamoto no Yoritomo, and mother of Minamoto no Yoriie and Minamoto no Sanetomo ...
Kashima Shinden Jikishinkage-ryū (鹿島神傳直心影流, かしましんでんじきしんかげりゅう), [ 1] often referred to simply as Jikishinkage-ryū or Kashima Shinden, is a traditional school ( koryū) of the Japanese martial art of swordsmanship ( kenjutsu ). The school was founded in the mid-16th century, based upon older ...
Makiwara. The makiwara ( 巻藁) is a padded striking post used as a training tool in various styles of traditional karate. It is thought to be uniquely Okinawan in origin. The makiwara is one form of hojo undō, a method of supplementary conditioning used by Okinawan martial artists .
Fūma no Kojirō (風魔の小次郎, "Kojiro of the Fuma Clan") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masami Kurumada. It was published in Weekly Shōnen Jump from January 1982 to November 1983. It tells the story of sword legends and rivalry between ninja clans. The main character Kojiro is a young boy who is a member of the ...
Maki Asakawa (Japanese: 浅川マキ, Hepburn: Asakawa Maki, January 27, 1942 – January 17, 2010) was a Japanese jazz and blues singer, lyricist and composer. Known as the "Queen of the Underground" ( アングラの女王 , Angura no Joō ) , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] she was an important voice of Japan's urban counterculture .
Maki-e. Maki-e (蒔絵, literally: sprinkled picture (or design)) is a Japanese lacquer decoration technique in which pictures, patterns, and letters are drawn with lacquer on the surface of lacquerware, and then metal powder such as gold or silver is sprinkled and fixed on the surface of the lacquerware. The origin of the term maki-e is a ...
Maki (まき, マキ) is a very common feminine Japanese given name which can also be used as a surname . Maki can be written using different kanji characters and can mean (the list is not exhaustive): as a given name. 真貴, "true, precious". 真樹, "true, timber trees". 真紀, "true, chronicle". 真希, "true, hope".