Historical figures in Shizuoka

The atlas holds 6 people and 7 moments here, from 1904 to 1952. The most recorded lives are Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Charlie Chaplin and Akira Kurosawa. Among them Writers, Musicians and Composers and Performers, across the Interwar Period and the Cold War.

Notable people

1. Akira Kurosawa

   in 1952

   1 moment here

   Japanese filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, editor, and painter. Kurosawa directed 30 feature films between 1943 and 1993, including Rashomon, Seven…

2. Charlie Chaplin

   in 1932

   1 moment here

   English actor, comedian, director, writer, producer and composer whose screen persona, the Tramp, became an international icon.…

3. Hideki Yukawa

   in 1950

   1 moment here

   Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate, awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics for predicting mesons.…

4. Hirohito

   in 1904

   1 moment here

   Hirohito (posthumously Emperor Shōwa) was Emperor of Japan from 25 December 1926 until his death in 1989.…

5. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

   from 1921 to 1923

   2 moments here

   Japanese short-story writer of the Taishō period, born Ryūnosuke Niihara in Tokyo and adopted into the Akutagawa family.…

6. Yasunari Kawabata

   in 1927

   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

1. 1904 Childhood residence at Numazu imperial mansion Hirohito
2. 1921 Stayed at Nakaniya in Yugawara Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
3. 1923 Convalescence at Nakaniya in Yugawara Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
4. 1927 Moved to Atami Yasunari Kawabata
5. 1932 Dines at Fujiya Hotel Charlie Chaplin
6. 1950 Meeting with Yoshio Nishina in Hakone Hideki Yukawa
7. 1952 Seven Samurai screenplay retreat Akira Kurosawa

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