Hisashi

{{about|the name|the architectural feature|hisashi (architecture)}} '''Hisashi''' is a masculine Japanese given name. Its meaning differs depending on the kanji used to write it.

==Kanji== Single kanji used to write the name Hisashi include:<ref name="ENAMDICT">{{cite book|url=http://nihongo.monash.edu/cgi-bin/wwwjdic?1C|first=Jim|last=Breen|authorlink=Jim Breen|title=Japanese Names Dictionary|publisher=Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group|year=2011|accessdate=17 October 2015|archive-date=27 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151027030214/http://nihongo.monash.edu/cgi-bin/wwwjdic?1C|url-status=dead}}</ref> *{{linktext|久}}: "long time" *{{linktext|永}}: "eternal" *{{linktext|尚}}: "still" *{{linktext|準}}: "standard" *{{linktext|彌}}: "complete" *{{linktext|長}}: "long" *{{linktext|寿}}: "life" (also with the ''kyūjitai'' variant {{linktext|壽}}) *{{linktext|昶}}: "long day"

There are more than a hundred different ways to write the name using two or three characters.<ref name="ENAMDICT"/>

==People with the name== *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Abe|阿部永||born 1933}}, Japanese zoologist *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Aikyoh|愛敬尚史||born 1976}}, Japanese former Nippon Professional Baseball player *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Appiah Tawiah|アピアタウィア久||born 1998}}, Japanese professional footballer *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Asō|麻生久||1891–1940}}, Japanese socialist politician and trade unionist *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Eguchi|江口寿史||born 1956}}, Japanese manga artist *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Hieda|日枝久||born 1937}}, Japanese business magnate *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Hirai|平井久司||born 1959}}, Japanese manga artist *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Igawa|井川比佐志||born 1936}}, Japanese actor *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Imai|今井寿||born 1965}}, Japanese guitarist and songwriter *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Inatsu|稲津久||born 1958}}, Japanese former politician *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Inoue|井上ひさし||1934–2010}}, Japanese writer and playwright *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Inoue (historian)|井上久士||born 1950}}, Japanese historian *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Iwakuma|岩隈久志||born 1981}}, Japanese former professional baseball pitcher *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Jogo|城後寿||born 1986}}, Japanese footballer *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Kagawa|香川久||born 1965}}, Japanese animator, character designer and animation director *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Kaneko|金子久||born 1959}}, Japanese former football player *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Kasai|葛西久||born 1943}}, Japanese ice hockey player *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Kato|加藤久||born 1956}}, Japanese football manager *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Katsuta|勝田久||1927–2020}}, Japanese actor and voice actor *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Kazama|風間昶||born 1947}}, Japanese former politician *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Kimura|木村栄||1870–1943}}, Japanese astronomer *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Kobayashi|小林久志||born 1938}}, Japanese electrical engineer and computer scientist *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Kuno|久野久||1910–1969}}, Japanese geologist *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Kurosaki|黒崎久志||born 1968}}, Japanese football player *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Matsuda|松田久||1924–2011}}, Japanese physicist *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Matsumoto|松本尚||born 1962}}, Japanese politician *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Matsuoka|松岡寿||1862–1944}}, Japanese painter *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Mitakeumi|御嶽海久司||born 1992}}, Japanese sumo wrestler *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Miura|三浦久||1931–2024}}, Japanese lawyer and politician *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Miyazaki|宮崎久||born 1981}}, Japanese retired bobsledder and track and field sprinter *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Mizugami|水上久||born 1925}}, Japanese alpine skier *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Mizutori|水鳥寿思||born 1980}}, Japanese gymnast *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Namekata|増田康宏||born 1973}}, Japanese shogi player *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Nogami|野上恒||born 1971}}, Japanese video game developer *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Nozawa|野沢尚||1960–2004}}, Japanese screenwriter and mystery novelist *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Ogura|小倉久史||born 1968}}, Japanese shogi player *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Ohashi|大橋尚志||born 1996}}, Japanese football player *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Okamoto|岡本久||born 1956}}, Japanese applied mathematician *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Okuyama|奥山ひさし||born 1941}}, Japanese poet *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Owada|小和田恆||born 1932}}, Japanese former jurist, diplomat and law professor *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Ouchi|大内久||born 1965, died 1999}}, Nuclear Power Plant Technician *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Sagara|相良久||born 1980}}, Japanese film editor *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Sakaguchi|坂口尚||1946–1995}}, Japanese manga artist and animator *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Shinma|新間寿||1935–2025}}, Japanese professional wrestling booker and professional wrestling promoter *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Takayama|高山久||born 1981}}, Japanese former baseball player *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Takeda|武田久||born 1978}}, Japanese baseball player *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Terao|寺尾寿||1855–1923}}, Japanese astronomer and mathematician *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Tonomura|外村尚||born 1972}}, known mononymously as Hisashi (musician) *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Tokunaga|徳永久志||born 1963}}, Japanese politician *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Tsuchida|土田尚史||born 1967}}, Japanese football player *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Wada|和田久||born 1962}}, Japanese racing driver and team principal *Hisashi Wakahara (born 1945), Japanese equestrian *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Yamada|山田久志||born 1948}}, Japanese baseball pitcher *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Yamaguchi|山口久||1952–2010}}, Japanese sumo wrestler *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Yamamoto|山本尚||born 1943}}, Japanese organic chemist *{{Nihongo|Hisashi Yokoshima|横島久||born 1957}}, Japanese retired racing driver

== Fictional characters ==

* Hisashi Igo (井豪永), a character from ''High School of the Dead'' * Hisashi Kinoshita (木下久志), a character from ''Haikyu!!'' with the position of wing spiker from Karasuno High *Hisashi Mitsui (三井寿), a character from ''Slam Dunk''

== See also ==

* {{Nihongo|Joe Hisaishi|久石譲|4=born 1950}}, Japanese composer

==References== {{reflist}}

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