User:Nihonjoe/Did you know

These are Did you know... hooks I submitted (23 articles so far) which have appeared on the Main page.

... that Yukiko Iwai, at 4' 11'' (150 cm), was the shortest member of the 1980s all-girl Japanese pop group Onyanko Club?
... that Sabu to Ichi Torimono Hikae, a manga about a blind samurai, won the 1968 Shogakukan Manga Award?
... that Japanese anime director Rintaro has worked in animation for 50 years and co-founded the animation studio Madhouse?
... that Nausicaä, the main character from the Hayao Miyazaki manga and film, is based on Nausicaa from the Odyssey and "The Princess Who Loved Insects", a Japanese folk hero?
... that Taishō Baseball Girls is a light novel series about an all-girl baseball team set in Taishō era Japan?
... that Keizō Tsukamoto set a Guinness World Record by creating the cover art for more than 1,900 issues of Weekly Manga Times starting in 1970?
... that Minori Kimura made her professional manga artist debut at the age of 14 in the 1964 Spring Special issue of Ribon, a magazine published in Japan by Shueisha?
... that Queen Millennia was combined by Harmony Gold and Carl Macek with another Leiji Matsumoto series, Captain Harlock, to create Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years?

... that when a Japanese honeybee hive is invaded by a giant hornet scout, the honeybees "bake" the hornet in a ball of about 500 bees (pictured)?
... that Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka, released in 1933 and directed by Kenzō Masaoka, was the first "talkie" animated film in Japan?

... that Kutani ware (pictured), first produced about 1656 near the current city of Kaga, is a type of Japanese porcelain known for its use of multicolored glazes in bold designs?
... that Karatsu ware is a style of Japanese pottery which is considered one of the top choices for implements used in the Japanese tea ceremony?
... that singer-songwriter Tatsuo Kamon began studying with rakugo master Tsuruko Shōfukutei at age 16?
... that Makiko Esumi won the 1995 Rookie of the Year Award at both the 19th Annual Japan Academy Prize ceremonies and at the 38th Blue Ribbon Awards for her debut acting role in the 1995 film Maborosi?
... that Japanese manga artist Seizō Watase worked at an insurance company for 16 years before retiring to work on manga full time?
... that the Leading Edge, a student-run, semi-professional science fiction and fantasy magazine, had a Chesley Award-winning cover in 2002 by James C. Christensen?
... that Sayuri Kokushō's 1986 debut single, Valentine Kiss, is the most popular Valentine's Day song in Japan, despite selling only 317,000 copies?
... that the Tosa Yamauchi Family Treasury and Archives contain the oldest extant manuscript of the Kokinshū, dating from the 11th century and designated a National Treasure of Japan?

... that a kichō (pictured) is a portable multi-paneled silk partition used in aristocratic households during and following the Heian period in Japan?
... that Yuki Saito's 1985 debut single, Sotsugyō, was used as an image song for a line of instant ramen?
... that "Kanashimi yo Konnichi wa" was used not only as a theme for the anime series Maison Ikkoku, but also as an image song for Shiseido shampoo?

... that the harvesting of Japanese beech trees on the slopes of Mount Izumi Katsuragi is forbidden for religious reasons?
... that Sandra Tayler wrote Hold on to Your Horses to help her daughter "visualize and control her impulsive ideas"?