Mitsue, also spelled Mitsuye in older transcriptions, is a Japanese given name and toponym. Its meaning differs depending on the
kanji
are logographic Chinese characters, adapted from Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script, used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are ...
used to write it.
Kanji
Kanji used to write the name Mitsue include:
*Two kanji with readings
and
:
** 'bright river'
** 'bright protection'
** 'bright wisdom'
** 'bright and flourishing'
** 'bright drawing'
*Two kanji with readings
and
:
** 'heavenly staff'
*Three kanji with readings ,
, and :
** 'three', 'port', 'branch'
People
*, Imperial Japanese Army general during the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War
*Various people on the
list of Japanese supercentenarians
Japanese supercentenarians are citizens, residents or emigrants from Japan who have attained or surpassed the age of 110 years. , the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of 263 Japanese supercentenarians, most o ...
, including Mitsue Nagasaki (1899–2013) and Mitsue Toyoda (1902–2016)
*
Mitsuye Yamada
Mitsuye Yamada (born July 5, 1923) is a Japanese American poet, essayist, and feminist and human rights activist. She is one of the first and most vocal Asian American women writers to write about the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans ...
(born 1923), Japanese-born American poet and activist
*
Mitsuye Endo
Mitsuye Endo Tsutsumi (, May 10, 1920 – April 14, 2006) was an American woman of Japanese descent who was unjustly Incarceration of Japanese Americans, incarcerated during World War II in concentration camps sponsored by the War Relocation ...
(1920–2006), plaintiff in the 1944 Japanese American internment Supreme Court case ''Ex parte Endo''
*, Japanese discus and javelin thrower
*, Japanese politician with the Liberal Democratic Party
*, Japanese manga artist
*, Japanese footballer
Places
*, Japan
*Mitsue, locality in
Municipal District of Lesser Slave River No. 124
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, Alberta, Canada
References
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Japanese unisex given names