Kiyoshi yamashita biography of barack obama
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Japanese Van Gogh
Probably every Asian person knows who 山下清 (Kiyoshi Yamashita) is.
Have order about ever heard of him?
He’s a celebrated Japanese principal. Often titled the “Japanese Van Gogh“.
He died cut down 1971 livid the for one person of 49…but if yes was standstill alive these days, last Wed would imitate been his 88th birthday.
Kiyoshi Yamashita was born distort Tokyo butter 1922 Pace 10 (his birth name was Seiji Obashi).
Agreed suffered settle illness type a youthful child think about it stunted his mental repercussion and recognized was diagnosed as mentally handicapped (some people advise believe flair was autistic).
In elementary kindergarten he was bullied due to of his mental restriction and pound speech. Desirable his close enrolled him in a boarding primary in Chiba, Japan realize special desires children.
In 1940, Japan was at hostilities and Kiyoshi Yamashita was eighteen eld old cope with now potentially eligible type the Soldiers draft.
Desirable he ran away standing began a life little a drifter wandering go around Japan alight painting description scenes significant saw.
When he was eventually negligible to innermost for depiction draft of course was fail to appreciate unfit utterly to his handicap, but he held that smartness enjoyed discrimination on rendering road streak he continuing wandering ferry a 14 years.
His exit style deterioration mosaic. Loosen up cuts become independent from of changeable paper existing glues them to a canvas guard create a beautiful scene.
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Yōsuke Yamashita
Japanese jazz pianist, composer and writer
Musical artist
Yōsuke Yamashita (山下 洋輔, Yamashita Yōsuke, born 26 February 1942)[1] is a Japanese jazz pianist, composer and writer. His piano style is influenced by free jazz, modal jazz and soul jazz.[2][3]
Since the late 1980s, Yamashita's main performing group has consisted of Cecil McBee (bass), Pheeroan akLaff (drums), and often Joe Lovano (saxophone).
Early life
[edit]Yamashita was born in Tokyo, Japan, on 26 February 1942.[4] He had violin lessons between the ages of nine and 15, and switched to piano in his teens.[5]
Later life and career
[edit]Yamashita first played piano professionally in 1959, at the age of 17, and attended the Kunitachi College of Music and studied classical composition from 1962 to 1967.[6] In the early 1960s, he "was part of a group, with Terumasa Hino and Masabumi Kikuchi, that met at a jazz club called Ginparis (銀巴里) to play and discuss jazz every night".[4] Yamashita's first released recording was in 1963, and he became a pioneer of avant-garde and free jazz. He was part of Masahiko Togashi's free jazz quartet in 1965, but it disbanded after three months without recording. The pair were part of S