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unusual facts about Kuroda


History of Shintō Musō-ryū

After the creation of his jō techniques and his establishment as a skilled jōjutsu practitioner he was invited by the Kuroda clan of northern Kyūshū (in present-day Fukuoka Prefecture) to teach his jōjutsu to their warriors.


Giant Lantern Festival

Kiyoshi Takeuchi and Ms. Kumiko Kuroda, Willy Ong, inter alia, led the Board of Judges, created by Executive Order of San Fernando, Pampanga Mayor Oscar Samson Rodriguez.

Iou Kuroda

In 2003, Kuroda's work Nasu was brought to the attention of animator and director Kitarō Kōsaka by Kōsaka's long-time collaborator from Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki, a fan of cycling.

Junichi Okada

Kanbei, whose birth name was Yoshitaka Kuroda, was a man of ambition who served as the chief strategist under Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the Sengoku period.

Kuroda Puppet Troupe

The Kuroda Puppet Troupe also hosted a summer puppetry training program in 2006 for American students at the Kuroda Puppetry Hall in conjunction with the University of Missouri and the American-based Japanese theater group, Bunraku Bay Puppet Troupe.

Kuroda Seiki

For most of his career, Kuroda painted in a style which, though basically Impressionistic, owed much to his academic training as well.

In 1890 Kuroda moved from Paris to the village of Grez-sur-Loing, an artists' colony which had been formed by painters from the United States and from northern Europe.

Taizan Maezumi

Maezumi was born on February 24, 1931 to Yoshiko Kuroda-Maezumi and Baian Hakujun Kuroda, a prominent Sōtō Zen priest, in his father's temple in Otawara, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan.

Tokubei Kuroda

In 1904, Kuroda followed Hirase in adopting Christianity, and through his church met many of the American missionaries who were active at that time in Japanese education, including Marshall Gaines and John Thomas Gulick.


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