is a masculine
Japanese given name
in modern times consist of a family name (surname) followed by a given name, in that order. Nevertheless, when a Japanese name is written in the Roman alphabet, ever since the Meiji era, the official policy has been to cater to Western expecta ...
.
Possible writings
The name Takashi can have multiple different meanings depending on which
kanji
are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still used, along with the subse ...
is used to write it. Some possible writings of the name include:
*江詩 - "estuary , inlet, poem"
*隆 - "prosperous noble"
*喬士 - "high, boasting, samurai, gentleman"
*峻 - "high, steep"
*崇史 - "adore, revere, chronicler, history"
*孝 - "filial piety, serve parents"
*節 - "moral courage, integrity"
*傑 - "hero, outstanding"
Takashi can also be written in
hiragana
is a Japanese language, Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with ''katakana'' as well as ''kanji''.
It is a phonetic lettering system. The word ''hiragana'' literally means "flowing" or "simple" kana ("simple" ori ...
and/or
katakana
is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji). The word ''katakana'' means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived f ...
:
*タカシ (katakana)
*たかし (hiragana)
People with the name
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Takashi Abe (阿部 隆, born 1967), Japanese shogi player
*, Japanese rugby union player
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Takashi Amano (天野尚, 1954–2015), Japanese photographer, aquarist and designer
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Takashi Aonishi (青西 高嗣), Japanese music artist
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Takashi Asahina (朝比奈 隆, 1908–2001), Japanese conductor
*, Japanese volleyball player
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Takashi Fujii (藤井隆, born 1972), Japanese singer and comedian
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Takashi Hagino (萩野 崇, born 1973), Japanese actor
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Takashi Hara
was a Japanese politician who served as the Prime Minister of Japan from 1918 to 1921.
Hara held several minor ambassadorial roles before rising through the ranks of the Rikken Seiyūkai and being elected to the House of Representatives. Har ...
(原 敬, 1856–1921), Japanese politician and Prime Minister of Japan
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Takashi Hara (artist)
was a Japanese politician who served as the Prime Minister of Japan from 1918 to 1921.
Hara held several minor ambassadorial roles before rising through the ranks of the Rikken Seiyūkai and being elected to the House of Representatives. Har ...
(ハラタカシ, born 1983), Japanese contemporary artist
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Takashi Hasegawa, Japanese electrical engineer and programmer
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Takashi Hashiguchi (橋口 たかし, born 1967), Japanese manga artist
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Takashi Hikino
is specially appointed professor at the Graduate School of Management at Kyoto University after serving as associate professor of industrial and business organization at the Graduate School of Management at Kyoto University where he taught indu ...
(曳野 孝), Japanese economist and educator
*, Japanese poet and critic
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Takashi Hirose (広瀬 隆, born 1943), Japanese writer
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Takashi "Halo" Hirose (died 2002), American swimmer
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Takashi "Taka" Hirose (born 1967), Japanese musician and chef
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Takashi Iizuka (game designer)
(born March 16, 1970) is a Japanese video game director, producer, designer and screenwriter. Since 2008, Iizuka has been the vice president of product development for the '' Sonic the Hedgehog'' series at Sega, as well as the head of Sonic Tea ...
(飯塚 隆, born 1970), Japanese video game director and designer
*, Japanese shogi player
*, Japanese handball player
*, Japanese actor
*, Japanese public relations practitioner, scholar and theorist
*, Japanese literature academic
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Takashi Ishii (film director)
was a Japanese film director, screenwriter and manga artist. He directed several '' pinku eiga'' erotic films, but his most notable feature was the 1995 crime thriller '' Gonin'' starring Takeshi Kitano.
Filmography Director
: 1988 '' Angel ...
(石井隆, born 1946), Japanese film director, screenwriter and manga artist
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Takashi Ishii (baseball) (石井貴, born 1971), Japanese baseball pitcher and coach
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Takashi Ishimoto
was a butterfly swimmer from Japan. He won the silver medal in the men's 200 m butterfly at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most po ...
(石本隆, 1935–2009), a Japanese swimmer
*, Japanese kickboxer
*, Japanese basketball player
*, Japanese ice hockey player
*, Japanese shogi player
*, Japanese handball player
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Takashi Kawamura (politician)
is a Japanese politician of the Nagoya-based Genzei Nippon (減税日本 "Tax Cut Japan") party, currently serving as Mayor of Nagoya. He was previously a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).
Kawamu ...
(河村 たかし, born 1948), Japanese politician
*, Japanese footballer
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Takashi Kimura (disambiguation) Takashi Kimura may refer to:
* Kengo Kimura
is a Japanese retired professional wrestler, best known under the ring name and for his many years working for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) in Japan.
Professional wrestling career
Japan Wrestling ...
, multiple people
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Takashi Koizumi (小泉堯史, born 1955), Japanese film director
*, Japanese boxer
*, Japanese volleyball player
*, Japanese industrialist, investor, and art collector
*, Japanese computer scientist
*, Japanese basketball player
*, Japanese cross-country skier
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Takashi Matsumoto (disambiguation), multiple people
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Takashi Matsunaga
, sometimes known professionally as Takashi, is a Japanese jazz pianist and composer.
Life and career
Matsunaga was born and raised in Kobe. At the age of five he first played a piano and Hammond organ that his father had. His father also took h ...
(松永貴志, born 1986), Japanese jazz pianist
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Takashi Matsuoka
Takashi Matsuoka (born January 10, 1947) is a first-generation Japanese American writer. He lives in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, and worked at a Zen Buddhist temple before becoming a full-time writer. His books about American missionaries' ...
, Japanese-American writer
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Takashi Miike
is a Japanese film director, film producer and screenwriter. He has directed over one hundred theatrical, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991. His films run through a variety of different genres, and range from violent a ...
(三池 崇史, born 1960), Japanese filmmaker
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese footballer and manager
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Takashi Murakami
is a Japanese contemporary artist. He works in fine arts media (such as painting and sculpture) as well as commercial (such as fashion, merchandise, and animation) and is known for blurring the line between high and low arts as well as co ae ...
(村上 隆, born 1962), Japanese contemporary artist
*, Japanese rower
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Takashi Nagai
was a Japanese Catholic physician specializing in radiology, an author, and a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. His subsequent life of prayer and service earned him the affectionate title "saint of Urakami".
Early years
Takashi (mea ...
(永井 隆, 1908–1951), Japanese physician and survivor of the Nagasaki bombing
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Takashi Nagasaki
is a Japanese author, manga writer and former editor of manga. He started his professional career at Shogakukan in 1980 and worked as an editor on the publisher's various manga magazines, including as editor-in-chief of '' Big Comic Spirits'' ...
(長崎 尚志, born 1954), Japanese author, manga writer and former editor of manga
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Takashi Nagasako (長嶝 高士, born 1964), Japanese voice actor
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Takashi Nagatsuka (長塚 節, 1879–1915), Japanese novelist and poet
*, Japanese politician
*, Japanese mixed martial artist
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Takashi Nakamura (中村 たかし, born 1995), Japanese animator, and anime director
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Takashi Narita (成田 貴志, born 1969), Japanese former volleyball player
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Takashi Niigaki (新垣隆, born 1970), Japanese music teacher
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Takashi Okamura (disambiguation) Takashi Okamura may refer to:
* Takashi Okamura (comedian) (born 1970), Japanese comedian
*Takashi Okamura (photographer)
, is a Japanese photographer who has specialized in the photography of art.
Okamura was born on 13 December 1927 in Kichijō ...
, multiple people
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Takashi Ono (小野 喬, born 1931), Japanese gymnast
*, Japanese voice actor
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Takashi Ozaki (尾崎隆, 1952–2011), Japanese mountaineer
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Takashi Saito (斎藤 隆, born 1970), Japanese baseball player
*, Japanese footballer
*Takashi Saito (c. 1990 - 2007), sumo wrestler who died due to injuries sustained in the
Tokitsukaze stable hazing scandal
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Takashi Sakai (酒井 隆, 1887–1946), Japanese general
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Takashi Shimizu
Takashi Shimizu (清水 崇 ''Shimizu Takashi'', born 27 July 1972) is a Japanese filmmaker. He is best known for being the creator of the ''Ju-On'' franchise, and directing four of its films, internationally, in both Japan and the U.S. Accord ...
(清水 崇, born 1972), Japanese filmmaker
*, Japanese footballer
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Takashi Shimura (志村 喬, 1905–1982), Japanese actor
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Takashi Sorimachi (反町 隆史, born 1973), Japanese singer and actor
*, Japanese sailor
*, Japanese ice hockey player
*, Japanese baseball player
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Takashi Umeda (梅田 高志, born 1976), Japanese footballer
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese anime director
*, Japanese architect
*, Japanese actor
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Takashi Yanase, author of the picture book series
Anpanman
is a Japanese children's superhero picture book series written by Takashi Yanase, running from 1973 until the author’s death in 2013. The series has been adapted into an anime entitled , which is one of the most popular anime series amo ...
*, Japanese racing driver
*, Japanese swimmer
*, Japanese water polo player
*, better known as Cyber Kong, Japanese professional wrestler
*, Japanese comedian
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Takashi Yoshimatsu (吉松 隆, born 1953), Japanese composer
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Takashi Yuasa (湯浅 卓, born 1955), Japanese lawyer
*, Mongolian sumo wrestler
Fictional characters
* a character from ''
Pita Ten''
*Takashi Hayase, a character from ''
The Super Dimension Fortress Macross
is an anime television series from 1982. According to story creator Shoji Kawamori, it depicts "a love triangle against the backdrop of great battles" during the first Human-alien war. It is the first part of two franchises: The ''Super D ...
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*, a character from
The Prince of Tennis
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takeshi Konomi. The manga was serialized in Shueisha's ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from July 1999 to March 2008, with its chapters collected in forty-two ''tankōbon'' volumes. ...
*, a character from ''
Highschool of the Dead''
*Takashi Kurosawa, a character from ''
The Hitman's Bodyguard''
* (Mori), a character from ''
Ouran High School Host Club''
*, a character from ''
Natsume's Book of Friends
is a Japanese manga series by Yuki Midorikawa. It began serialization by Hakusensha in the '' shōjo'' manga magazine ''LaLa DX'' in 2005, before switching to ''LaLa'' in 2008. The chapters have been collected in twenty-nine bound volum ...
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*, a character from ''
Cyber Team in Akihabara''
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Takashi 'Shiro' Shirogane
Sven Holgersson, known as in the original Japanese language ''Beast King GoLion'' and in '' Voltron: Legendary Defender'', is a fictional character in the media franchise ''Voltron'', and a member of the Voltron Force. The character's first appe ...
, a character from ''
Voltron: Legendary Defender''
*Takashi Sone, a character from ''Haru yo, Koi''
*, a character from ''
Yotsuba&!
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kiyohiko Azuma, the creator of ''Azumanga Daioh''. It has been serialized since March 2003 in the monthly magazine ''Dengeki Daioh'' by ASCII Media Works, formerly MediaWorks (publisher), ...
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*, a character from ''
Cardcaptor Sakura
, abbreviated as ''CCS'', is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by the manga group Clamp. Serialized monthly in the ''shōjo'' manga magazine '' Nakayoshi'' from May 1996 to June 2000, it was also published in 12 ''tankōbon' ...
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*Takashi Kovacs, a character from ''Altered Carbon''
*Takashi Mitsuya, a character from ''Tokyo Revengers''
*Takashi Todoroki, a character from ''
Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal''
References
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