Famous People with Name Kingo

Kingoro Hashimoto            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kingoro Hashimoto: was a Japanese soldier and politician. He was born in Okayama City.He was a right-wing military politician, with active participation in various attempts at coups d'état. He was a founder of radical secret societies.Hashimoto actively participated in the March incident of 1931. The Sakura Kai (Cherry Blossom Society) was formed secretly by him and Captain Isamu Cho. The Sakura Kai group sought political reform: the elimination of party government by a coup d'état and the establishment of a new cabinet based upon state socialism, in order to stamp out Japan's allegedly corrupt politics, economy, and thought. The attempt failed, but Hashimoto, along with Isamu Cho and Shumei Okawa, organized a further coup, the Imperial Colors Incident, also known as the October Incident, with Sadao Araki. All the conspirators were arrested and transferred to other posts. There were also suspicions of the instigation of himself and Araki in the final attempt, the Military Academy Incident.

Tatsuno Kingo            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Tatsuno Kingo: was a Japanese architect born in Karatsu, Saga Prefecture, Kyushu.He studied in England until 1883, and later in Japan where he was one of the first to graduate under British architect Josiah Conder. He taught at the University of Tokyo. He created his own firm in 1902.

Thomas Hansen Kingo            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Thomas Hansen Kingo: was a Danish bishop, poet and hymn-writer born at Slangerup, near Copenhagen. His work marked the high point of Danish baroque poetry. He belonged to a rather poor family partly of Scottish origin and was educated a clergyman. In his youth, Kingo wrote a series of poems picturing humorous scenes in village life and a pastoral love poem, Chrysillis. He studied theology at the University of Copenhagen, graduating in 1654, and for some time acted as private tutor. In 1661 he was appointed vicar to the pastor at Kirke Helsinge, and in 1668 he was ordained a minister at his native town, where his poetic activity began. At first he essayed patriotic poems, but later devoted himself almost entirely to writing hymns, and in 1674 the first part of his Aandelige Siunge-Koor ("Spiritual Song Choir") appeared; followed in 1681 by a second part. This work consists of a collection of beautiful hymns several of which are still popular in the Danish Church.