Nana Okada (岡田 奈々, Okada Nana, born November 7, 1997 in Kanagawa Prefecture) is a member of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48, under Team 4. She joined the group as part of the 14th generation members. She is a member of AKB48's subgroup Tentoumu Chu!.
A sub-group was formed consisting of trainee members from AKB48, SKE48, NMB48 and HKT48. The selected members are herself, Mako Kojima, Miki Nishino, Ryoha Kitagawa, Nagisa Shibuya, Meru Tashima and Mio Tomonaga. These members are said to be the strongest trainee members. She was later promoted to Team 4 in August 2013, during the third day of the group's Tokyo Dome concert.
Together with members Ryoka Oshima and Rina Kawaei, they formed Team Kanagawa to promote the new trains in the Yokohama Line. Later in May, she was selected to sing the group's 36th single title track Labrador Retriever (song).
In the group's sixth general election to determine the lineup for their 37th single, Okada ranked for the first time, with a position of 51st place, becoming part of Future Girls.
Nana may refer to:
Nana (1926) is Jean Renoir's second full-length silent film and is based on the novel by Émile Zola.
A government official, Count Muffat, falls under the spell of Nana, a young actress. She becomes his mistress, living in the sumptuous apartment which he provides for her. Instead of elevating herself to Muffat's level, however, Nana drags the poor man down to hers - in the end, both lives have been utterly destroyed.
The film stars Renoir’s wife, Catherine Hessling, in an eccentric performance as the flawed heroine Nana.
Jean Renoir’s film is a fairly faithful adaptation of Émile Zola’s classic novel. The film’s extravagances include two magnificent set pieces – a horse race and an open air ball. The film never made a profit, and the commercial failure of the film robbed Renoir of the opportunity to make such an ambitious film again for several years.
Phthora nana (Medieval Greek φθορά νανὰ) is one of the ten modes of the Hagiopolitan Octoechos consisting of 8 diatonic echoi and two additional phthorai. It is used in different traditions of Orthodox chant until today (→ Neobyzantine Octoechos). The name "nana" is taken from the syllables (written in ligatures "ʅʅ") sung during the intonation which precedes a melody composed in this mode. The name "phthora" derived from the verb φθείρω and means "destroy" or "corrupt". It was usually referred to the diatonic genus of the eight mode system and as a sign used in Byzantine chant notation it indicated a "change to another genus" (μεταβολὴ κατὰ γένος), in the particular case of phthora nana a change to the enharmonic genus. Today the "nana" intonation has become the standard name of the third authentic mode which is called "echos tritos" (ἦχος τρίτος) in Greek and "third glas" (третий Гласъ) in Old Church Slavonic.
In the theory and notation of Byzantine and Orthodox chant nana is the name of a special phthora which had been used in different ways according to its historic context:
Okada (written: 岡田 lit. "hill rice-paddy") is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the name include:
In Nigeria, an okada (also: achaba, going, inaga) is a motorcycle taxi. The name was borrowed from Okada Air, a Nigerian local airline, now defunct.
Motorcycle taxis or Okadas are also commonly used in many West African countries, including Togo (Oléyia), Benin (Zémidjans), Burkina Faso, Liberia (Phen-Phen) and Sierra Leone.
In its time, Okada Air was the most popular Nigerian local airline, but was not known for its comfort. The airline was named after Okada town near Benin City, the hometown of its owner, Chief Gabriel Igbinedion. The motorcycle transports were nicknamed after the airline, because they could manoeuvre through the heavy traffic of Lagos, and take passengers to their destinations in a timely manner, in the same way as the airline. The ironic humour of an airline's name being used for commercial motorcyclists, as well as the local familiarity with Okada Air, caused the nickname of okada to outlive the airline from which it originated, which many Nigerians no longer remember.
Komm und tritt ein
Langsam in den Neonschein.
Was die dunkle Nacht verspricht,
Findet sich im Neonlicht.
Komm, komm, komm.
Rot, rot, so rot
strahlt der Neongott.
Er macht deine Augen weich,
Zeichnet Licht und Schatten gleich.
Neongott, Neongott.
Komm,komm es tut gut,
Denn die heiße Neonglut
Löscht die bittren Zweifel aus,
Wird ein bunter Traum daraus.
Neongott, Neongott.
Wenn er seinen Mantel nimmt,
Bist du ausgebrannt und blind.