Shigenobu is a Japanese name. It is usually a male given name but can be a surname or the name of a place. As with most personal names, the meaning of the name is derived from which ''

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'' (Chinese characters) are used, and there are several different ''kanji'' that are pronounced "shige" and a few which can be pronounced "nobu."

Possible spellings

* 重信 – "heavy faith" * 重靖 – "heavy diligence" * 重陳 – "heavy maturity" * 茂信 – "abundant faith" * 茂伸 – "abundantly influential" * 繁信 – "abundant faith" * 繫信 – "joined in faith"Casio ''EX-Word'' XD-H7500 (electronic dictionary). 2004. * 薫信 – "aroma of faith" * 滋信 – "nourishing faith" * 滋延 – "nourishing longevity"

Phonetic spelling

The following are spellings of the name "Shigenobu" in the two phonetic

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of written Japanese, and thus have no intrinsic meaning: * しげのぶ * シゲノブ

People

Surname

*, a leader of the

Japanese Red Army The was a militant communist organization active from 1971 to 2001. It was designated a terrorist organization by Japan and the United States. The JRA was founded by Fusako Shigenobu and Tsuyoshi Okudaira in February 1971, and was most acti ...

*, the daughter of

Fusako Shigenobu is a Japanese communist activist, writer, and the founder and leader of the now-disbanded terrorist group Japanese Red Army (JRA). Born in Japan, Shigenobu became involved in New Left activism while attending night school at Meiji University ...

*, Japanese baseball player

Male

*, a Japanese ''

daimyō were powerful Japanese magnates, feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji era, Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast hereditary land holdings. They were subordinate to the shogun and no ...

'' *, a Japanese ''

ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art that flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock printing, woodblock prints and Nikuhitsu-ga, paintings of such subjects as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes ...

'' artist *, a Japanese ''ukiyo-e'' artist who may have been

Ishikawa Toyonobu was a Japanese ''ukiyo-e'' print artist. He is sometimes said to have been the same person as Nishimura Shigenobu, a contemporary ''ukiyo-e'' artist and student of Nishimura Shigenaga about whom very little is known. A pupil of Nishimura Sh ...

*, an ''ukiyo-e'' artist better known as Hiroshige II *, a Japanese statesman *, a Japanese religious leader *, a Japanese composer and music teacher *, a Japanese athlete

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