takano

Updated: May 21, 2025

When another barber, T. Takano, who runs a little hole-in-the-wall shop and lives at 10 Avenida B, shows up, both Sonada and the Consul rise, bow very low and remain standing until he motions them to be seated. Maybe it's just an old Japanese custom, but the Consul does not extend the same courtesy to the other barbers.

John L. (John Louis) Spivak - Secret Armies: The New Technique of Nazi Warfare

Think of the nobleman, Watanabé Oboru, who, by means of the Japanese interpreter of Dutch, Takano Choyéi, is thrilled with the story of Jesus of Nazareth who helped and healed and spake as no other man spake, teaching with an authority above that of the masters Confucius or Buddha.

William Elliot Griffis - The Religions of Japan: From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji

Kwammu, known in his days of priesthood as Yamabe, was Konin's eldest son, and would have been named Prince Imperial on his father's ascent of the throne had not his mother, Takano, been deficient in qualifications of lineage.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era