Kurosawa, Akira b. March 23, 1910 d. September 6, 1998 Legendary Film Director, also Screenwriter and Producer. Kurosawa is probably the most well-known of all Japanese directors, and ironically is far more popular outside of Japan than within. He first studied art before turning to film. He worked under director Kajiro Yamamoto before he began his own directorial career with "Sanshiro Sugata,"(1943), a film about the 19th century struggle for supremacy between adherents of judo and jujitsu that so impressed the military government, he was...[Read More] (Bio by: Warrick L. Barrett) Cause of death: Stroke Anyo-ji Temple Cemetery, Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan
Morinaga, Prince 'Moriyoshi' b. 1308 d. 1335 Son of Emperor Godaigo. He helped his father overthrow the Kamakura Shogunate and restore the imperial supremacy. For a brief period, Emperor Godaigo succeeded in gaining the imperial rule, but was soon defeated by Ashikaga troops. Captured during this conflict, Prince Morinaga was brought to Kamakura and put under house arrest by the Ashikaga, and he was eventually executed by beheading. After rising to power in 1868, Emperor Meiji ordered the establishment of a shrine in homage to the Prince...[Read More] (Bio by: Warrick L. Barrett) Cause of death: execution by beheading Kamakura-gu (shrine), Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan
Suzuki, Beatrice Erskine b. 1878 d. July 16, 1939 Beatrice was a graduate of Radcliffe College and a Theosophist who had been a student of William James, Josiah Royce, and George Herbert Palmer. She had come to Radcliffe from Newark, New Jersey, and prepped at the Cambridge Latin School before entering Radcliffe in 1894. She took courses with James and Royce, among others, and one of her classmates was Gertrude Stein. After her graduation in 1898, Lane proceeded to New York, where she began graduate studies at Columbia. She earned an M.A. and...[Read More] (Bio by: Warrick L. Barrett) Tokei-ji Temple Cemetery, Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan
Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro b. October 18, 1870 d. July 12, 1966 Zen scholar. A native of Kanazawa, he was born "Teitaro Suzuki" and is also known as "Daisetzu Suzuki." He enjoyed a long and multi-faceted career during which began as first, an English teacher then novice Zen monk in Japan. He subsequently joined the Open Court Publishing Company in, LaSalle, Illinois as a proofreader, editor, and translator. He thereafter joined the faculty of the Imperial University, Tokyo, as a professor of English, followed by service at Gakushuin University in Tokyo and...[Read More] (Bio by: Warrick L. Barrett) Tokei-ji Temple Cemetery, Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan
b. March 23, 1910 d. September 6, 1998
