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Ōoka, Ooka or Oooka (大岡（おおおか）, Ōoka, "large hill") may refer to: Location. Ōoka River (大岡川, Ōoka-gawa) Ōoka, Nagano (大岡村, Ōoka-mura) Surname. Ōoka Tadasuke (大岡忠相, Ōoka Tadasuke) (1677–1752), Japanese judge, known in English juvenile literature as "Ooka the Wise" or "Solomon in Kimono"
The Ōoka clan (大岡氏, Ōoka -shi) were a samurai kin group which rose to prominence in the Edo period.Under the Tokugawa shogunate, the Ōoka, as hereditary vassals of the Tokugawa clan, were classified as one of the fudai daimyō clans.
Ōoka Tadasuke (Japanese: 大岡 忠相, 1677 – 3 February 1752) was a Japanese samurai in the service of the Tokugawa shogunate.During the reign of Tokugawa Yoshimune, as a magistrate (machi-bugyō) of Edo, his roles included chief of police, judge and jury, and Yamada Magistrate (Yamada bugyō) prior to his tenure as South Magistrate (Minami Machi-bugyō) of Edo.
Fires on the Plain (Japanese: 野火 Nobi) is a Yomiuri Prize-winning novel by Ooka Shohei, published in 1951.It describes the experiences of a soldier of the routed Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines, as part of the Battle of Leyte and the Battle of Ormoc Bay, at the end of 1944, towards the final months of World War II.
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Makoto Ōoka (大岡 信, Ōoka Makoto, February 16, 1931, in Mishima, Shizuoka – April 5, 2017) [1] was a Japanese poet and literary critic.He pioneered the collaborative poetic form renshi in the 1990s, [2] [3] in which he has collaborated with such well-known literary figures as Charles Tomlinson, James Lasdun, Joseph Stanton, Shuntarō Tanikawa and Mikirō Sasaki.
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Fires on the Plain (野火, Nobi) is a 1959 Japanese war film directed by Kon Ichikawa, starring Eiji Funakoshi.The screenplay, written by Natto Wada, is based on the novel Nobi (Tokyo 1951) by Shōhei Ōoka, translated as Fires on the Plain. [1]