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5 unusual facts about Matsumoto


Greco guitars

;1960–1961: FujiGen, an early manufacturer of Greco, was established in Matsumoto city by Yutaka Mimura and Yuichiro Yokouchi in May 4, 1960, and started to manufacture the classical guitars for Kanda Shokai and Kamano Gakki.

Jōkyō Uprising

But their acts of righteousness were met with a harsh reprimand from officials in Matsumoto.

Matsumoku

Matsumoku began in Matsumoto, Japan, as a family owned woodworking business that specialized in building tansu and butsudan.

Please Teacher!

This school is based upon the Old Matsumoto High School located in Agatanomori Park of Matsumoto, about an hour south of Lake Kizaki on the JR Ōito Line.

Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto

Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto is an annual classical music festival held in August and September in the Japanese Alps near Matsumoto.


Cosmic Background Explorer

Second, in 1987 a Japanese-American team led by Andrew Lange and Paul Richards of UC Berkeley and Toshio Matsumoto of Nagoya University made an announcement that CMB was not that of a true black body.

Galaxy Express 999

Matsumoto was inspired to create Galaxy Express 999 by the idea of a steam train running through the stars in the novel Night on the Galactic Railroad by Kenji Miyazawa.

Ginga Tetsudō

The Galaxy Railways, a sci-fi anime series produced by Leiji Matsumoto

Galaxy Express 999, a manga written and drawn by Leiji Matsumoto, and the anime based on it

Hata, Nagano

Hata mainly serves as a bedroom community to Matsumoto City; however, it does have a few precision factories including Miyaji Iron Works, which contributed iron frames to structures such as the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building and the Great Seto Bridge.

HoneyComing

The first series is written by Jōji Kamio, with illustrations by Makako Matsumoto and Rakko, and is published by GoodsTrain under their TwinTail Novels label.

June Yamagishi

In 1972, he formed the West Road Blues Band in Kyoto along with vocalist Takashi "Hotoke" Nagai, guitarist Shinji Shiotsugu, bassist Tadashi Kobori, and drummer Teruo Matsumoto.

Katsuji Matsumoto

In addition to illustrating new and original children's books, Matsumoto illustrated numerous classics, including Little Red Riding Hood (1955), Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book (1959, translated by Yasunari Kawabata), and various other collections of classic Japanese and European fairy tales.

Kiyoko Matsumoto

American musician Beck references Matsumoto's death in the lyrics to the song "Volcano" from his 2008 album Modern Guilt: "And I heard of that Japanese girl who jumped into The Volcano. Was she trying to make it back, back into the womb of the world?"

Lisa Matsumoto

Matsumoto was driving her green 1997 Toyota Camry at about 3:32 AM on 14 December on Interstate H-1 the wrong way on the Waianae-bound side of the highway when she collided head-on with a black 1998 Toyota Corolla travelling in the correct direction.

Matsumoto Kōshirō

- Previously Matsumoto Koshirō (小四郎), forced in 1716 to change his name when the Shogun's son was named Koshirō; thus, he became the first actor to be called Kōshirō (幸四郎), and would pass this name on.

Nina Matsumoto

Matsumoto first came to the attention of the comic industry through her widely distributed artwork Simpsonzu, a manga stylized parody artwork of The Simpsons cast.

Sayaka Matsumoto

Matsumoto, who was raised in California, is coached by her father, David Matsumoto.

Shinshu University

The University has five campuses in Matsumoto, Nishi-nagano (Nagano), Wakasato (Nagano), Ueda and Minami-Minowa, and 8 faculties with a total of around 10,000 students.


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