city, Chiba ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It lies on the east coast of Tokyo Bay. The city was formed by the amalgamation of the towns of Ichihara, Goi, Sanwa, Shizu, and Anegasaki in 1962. Except for the trade centre and ...
city, Chiba ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It lies along the Edo River east of Tokyo. The city is composed of the three towns of Ichikawa, Yawata, and Nakayama, which were salt-producing post towns on the Chiba Highway (Chiba-kaido) during the ...
(from the article "arts, East Asian") ...gentle style of acting (wagoto) for erotic love stories in Kyoto, while in Edo, a stylized, bravura style of acting (aragoto) was created at almost the same time by the actor Ichikawa Danjuro e (1660-1704) for bombastic fighting plays. In ...
(from the article "arts, East Asian") ...created and Mokuami developed. They wrote for the talents of star actors: Namboku wrote for the finest onnagata (female impersonator) of his time, Iwai Hanshiro V, and Mokuami wrote for Ichikawa Danjuro IX and a remarkable actor of gangster roles, ...
(from the article "Ichikawa Family") Danjuro XI (1909-65) was among the top kabuki actors in the post-World War II period. He performed in both traditional and contemporary plays. His performances as Prince Genji in an adaptation of Genji monogatari (The Tale of Genji) constituted a ...
kabuki actors flourishing in Edo (modern Tokyo) from the 17th century to the present. The most famous names are Danjuro, Ebizo, Danzo, and Ebijuro, and, according to kabuki convention, these names were assumed by a natural or adopted son of ...
(from the article "arts, East Asian") ...Namboku wrote for the finest onnagata (female impersonator) of his time, Iwai Hanshiro V, and Mokuami wrote for Ichikawa Danjuro IX and a remarkable actor of gangster roles, Ichikawa Kodanji IV. Each was a master of kabuki art, and between ...
Japanese motion-picture director who introduced sophisticated Western-style comedy to Japan in the 1950s. Later he became concerned with more-serious subjects such as antiwar sentiment. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Hishikawa Moronobu") ...the customs and manners of the Edo people, especially of courtesans and Kabuki theatre actors. Among his works are the scroll "The Gay Quarters and the Kabuki Theatre," the 12 ichimai-e (single-sheet print) series "Scenes from the Gay Quarters at ...
city, Aichi ken (prefecture), central Honshu, Japan. It developed in the 7th century around the principal Shinto temple of the locality, the Masumida Shrine. During the Tokugawa period (1603-1867) it was an important transport centre on the Gifu Highway. Ichinomiya ...
(from the article "Principal national parks of the world") ...the remaining gazelles. Scorpions are found in all regions; among dangerous snakes are the horned viper and the cobra. Desert locusts sometimes damage crops in the southern part of the country. Ichkeul National Park, in the northernmost part of the ...
any of a large and widely distributed insect group (order Hymenoptera) of considerable economic importance. The name sometimes refers to any member of the superfamily Ichneumonoidea, which includes the families Stephanidae, Braconidae, and Ichneumonidae. The Stephanidae, a largely tropical group, ... [2 Related Articles]
scientific study of fishes, including, as is usual with a science that is concerned with a large group of organisms, a number of specialized subdisciplines: e.g., taxonomy, anatomy (or morphology), behavioral science (ethology), ecology, and physiology. Because of the great ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Gymnophiona") ...no aquatic larval stage; 23 genera, 90 species; adult size 10-152 cm (4-60 inches); South and Central America, Africa, India, and Seychelles.No fossil record; tail present; mouth subterminal (partially recessed); premaxillae not fused with nasals; prefrontals present; squamosal articulating ...
(from the article "hymenostome") ...and by an undulating membrane on the other side. In the genus Pleuronema the membrane is greatly enlarged to form a saclike food scoop. The order also contains parasites, such as the genus Ichthyophthirius, which attacks the skin of freshwater ...
(from the article "ich") parasitic disease that affects a variety of freshwater fish species and that is caused by the ciliated protozoan Ichthyophthirius multifiliis. Ich is one of the most common diseases encountered in tropical-fish aquariums. Its signs include the presence ...
(from the article "vertebrate") ...dinosaurs.†Extinct; single temporal opening on area of cheek.†Extinct; temporal openings high up on skull; fishlike; spindle-shaped body; high tail fin; triangular dorsal fin; paddlelike legs;...
extinct seabirds of the Late Cretaceous Period (99 million to 65 million years ago) found as fossils in the U.S. states of Wyoming, Kansas, and Texas. Ichthyornis somewhat resembled present-day gulls and terns and may even have ... [1 Related Articles]
any member of an extinct group of aquatic reptiles, most of which were very similar to porpoises in appearance and habits. These distant relatives of lizards and snakes (lepidosaurs) were the most highly specialized aquatic reptiles, but ichthyosaurs were not ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "ichthyosaur") Ichthyosaurus, a representative genus from which the larger group takes its name, was about 3 metres (10 feet) long and was probably able to move through the water at high speeds. Very fishlike in appearance, it is ...
a hereditary condition involving dryness and scaliness of the skin brought about by excessive growth of the horny outermost covering of the skin. The dead cells of this horny layer do not slough off at the normal rate but tend ... [1 Related Articles]
genus of extinct animals, closely related to tetrapods (four-legged land vertebrates) and found as fossils in rocks in eastern Greenland from the late Devonian Period (about 370 million years ago). Ichthyostega was about one metre (three feet) ... [3 Related Articles]
(Salanx), any of several semitransparent fishes, family Salangidae, found in freshwaters and salt waters of eastern Asia and considered a delicacy by the Chinese. The numerous species are slender and troutlike in form, scaleless or finely scaled, and seldom more ...
(from the article "ice in lakes and rivers") ...very cold periods. At other times all the water in a small stream freezes; subsequent inflowing water then flows over the surface and freezes, forming large buildups of ice. These are known as icings, Aufeis (German), or naleds (Russian). Icings ...
(from the article "ice hockey") Because of the speed and contact, there are many infractions, not all of them having to do with "hitting" penalties. Play is stopped for an offside and for the infraction called icing, which occurs when a team shoots the puck ...
famous prehistoric trackway across England from Norfolk to Wiltshire, following dry ground along the East Anglian ridge, the Chiltern Hills, and the Berkshire Downs. In Wiltshire are the great foci of the prehistoric occupation of the county at Stonehenge and ...
in literature, a description of a person or thing, usually using a figure of speech. To semioticians, icons are signs, verbal or otherwise, with extra-systemic resemblances to the persons or things they denote. The Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning ...
in Eastern Christian tradition, a representation of sacred personages or events in mural painting, mosaic, or wood. After the iconoclastic controversy of the 8th-9th century, which disputed the religious function and meaning of icons, the Eastern Church formulated the doctrinal ... [15 Related Articles]
(from the article "semiotics") ...He defined a sign as "something which stands to somebody for something," and one of his major contributions to semiotics was the categorization of signs into three main types: (1) an icon, which resembles its referent (such as a road ...
a dispute over the use of religious images (icons) in the Byzantine Empire in the 8th and 9th centuries. The Iconoclasts (those who rejected images) objected to icon worship for several reasons, including the Old Testament prohibition against images in ... [31 Related Articles]
(from the article "Christianity") The decisive contrast between the iconodules (image lovers) and the iconoclasts (image destroyers) is found in their understanding of Christology. The iconodules based their theology upon the view of Athanasius-who reflected Alexandrian Christology-that Christ, the God become human, is the ...
the science of identification, description, classification, and interpretation of symbols, themes, and subject matter in the visual arts. The term can also refer to the artist's use of this imagery in a particular work. The earliest iconographical studies, published in ... [39 Related Articles]
(from the article "television") The first electronic camera tubes were invented in the United States by Vladimir K. Zworykin (the Iconoscope) in 1924 and by Philo T. Farnsworth (the Image Dissector) in 1927. These early inventions were soon succeeded by a series of improved ...
in Eastern Christian churches of Byzantine tradition, a solid screen of stone, wood, or metal, usually separating the sanctuary from the nave. The iconostasis had originally been some sort of simple partition between the altar and the congregation; it then ... [8 Related Articles]
(from the article "virion") ...the capsid is further enveloped by a fatty membrane, in which case the virion can be inactivated by exposure to fat solvents such as ether and chloroform. Many virions are spheroidal-actually icosahedral-the capsid having 20 triangular faces, with regularly arranged ...
(from the article "cluster") ...Waals forces or by other simple forces that depend only on the distance between each pair of atoms have unusual stability when the cluster has exactly the number of atoms needed to form a regular icosahedron. The first three clusters ...
any fish of the family Ictaluridae, which includes about 50 species of North and Central American freshwater catfishes. Ictalurids are "typical" catfishes, with large, wide heads, tapering, scaleless bodies, and eight prominent mouth barbels. The family includes the channel and ... [1 Related Articles]
songbird family, order Passeriformes, consisting of 88 species of great diversity in size, habits, and diet, found throughout the Americas. [1 Related Articles]
Greek architect, one of the most celebrated of Athens, known for his work on the Parthenon on the Acropolis, the Temple of the Mysteries at Eleusis, and the Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae. [3 Related Articles]
in Freudian psychoanalytic theory, one of the three agencies of the human personality, along with the ego and superego (qq.v.). The oldest of these psychic realms in development, it contains the psychic content related to the primitive instincts of the ... [6 Related Articles]
the second of two great Muslim festivals, the other being 'Id al-Fitr. 'Id al-Adha marks the culmination of the hajj (pilgrimage) rites at Mina, Saudi Arabia, near Mecca, but is celebrated by Muslims throughout the world. As with 'Id al-Fitr, ... [4 Related Articles]
first of two canonical festivals of Islam. 'Id al-Fitr marks the end of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting, and is celebrated during the first three days of Shawwal, the 10th month of the Islamic calendar (though the Muslim ... [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "tae kwon do") ...(Proficiency in the graded series of hyung determines rank in the lower grades.) Students also practice basic sparring combinations (id-bo tueryon, "one-step sparring"); these are short, set sequences of attack and counter practiced between ...
first recorded king of Bernicia (from 547), soon after the foundation of the kingdom of Bernicia by the Angles in the British Isles. He supposedly built the fortress of Bebbanburh, the modern Bamborough; and after his death his kingdom, which ... [1 Related Articles]
mountain range in northwestern Asia Minor (now Turkey), near the site of ancient Troy. A classic shrine, Ida was where Paris passed judgment on the rival goddesses and was the scene of the rape of Ganymede. From its highest peak, ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Kaminska, Ida") ...Warsaw (1916) with the theatre company named for her father. She played many leads in Warsaw (1916-19), toured Russia for three years (1919-21), and returned to Warsaw to found her own Ida Kaminska Theatre, where she starred in productions that ...
town, Kogi state, south-central Nigeria. It lies on a sandstone cliff on the east bank of the Niger River. The traditional capital of the Igala people, Idah was brought under the jurisdiction of the kingdom of Benin by Oba (King) ...
constituent state of the United States of America. With 83,564 square miles (216,432 square kilometres), including 1,153 square miles of inland water, it has twice the combined area of the six New England states. Its boundaries are both historical and ... [6 Related Articles]
city, seat (1864) of Boise county, southwestern Idaho, U.S., above the confluence of Elk and Mores creeks. It lies in a mountainous area of Boise National Forest at an elevation of 4,400 feet (1,340 metres), 24 miles (39 km) northeast ...
city, seat (1911) of Bonneville county, southeastern Idaho, U.S., on the upper Snake River. Originally the territory of the Shoshone-Bannock and Northern Paiute Indians, it began as the Eagle Rock settlement at Taylor's Ferry (1863), later Taylor's Bridge. The town ...
