Famous People with Name Kino

Kinoko Nasu            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kinoko Nasu: a Japanese author, best known for writing the visual novels Tsukihime and Fate/stay night. Renowned for a unique style of storytelling and prose, Nasu is amongst the most prominent visual novelists in Japan.Together with high school classmate and friend, Takeshi Takeuchi, Nasu formed Type-Moon in 2000, originally as a dojin group to create the visual novel Tsukihime, which soon gained immense popularity, much of which is attributed to Nasu's unique style of storytelling. A sequel to Tsukihime, Kagetsu Tohya, was released on August 2001.

Minoru Kino            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Minoru Kino: is a Japanese former handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics and in the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Nanami Kino            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Nanami Kino: is a Japanese former handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Junji Kinoshita            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Junji Kinoshita: was a Japanese playwright and translator of Shakespeare born in Hongo, which is now Bunkyo, Tokyo.He graduated from the University of Tokyo, where he majored in English literature.Well-known works translated into English include Twilight Crane (??, yuzuru), Wind and Waves (??, furo) and Between God and Man (????????, kami-to hito-to-no aida).In 1951, composer Ikuma Dan used Kinoshita's Twilight Crane as the libretto for his opera Yuzuru.

Mokutaro Kinoshita            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Mokutaro Kinoshita: was a Japanese author and doctor.He was born in Ito, Shizuoka as Masao Ota (????). He translated German literature with “Gathering of Pan” (????) and studied documents of Japanese Christianity in 16th century. He wrote some plays called “????” (Kirisitan Mono), depicted Kirishitan, Christian in feudal Japan.