Shinobu
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is a Japanese verb meaning or . It is a Japanese given name used by either sex. Shinobu is also the dictionary form of shinobi
which can be combined with mono (者) to make shinobi no mono (忍びの者), an alternative name of ninja
.
characters and can mean:
as a given name
as a male given name
The name can also be written in hiragana
or katakana
.
Shinobi
Shinobi is the Japanese word for male ninja. It may also refer to:*Shinobi , a series of video games**Shinobi , the original video game in the series developed by Sega**Shinobi , the PlayStation 2 sequel...
which can be combined with mono (者) to make shinobi no mono (忍びの者), an alternative name of ninja
Ninja
A or was a covert agent or mercenary of feudal Japan specializing in unorthodox arts of war. The functions of the ninja included espionage, sabotage, infiltration, and assassination, as well as open combat in certain situations...
.
Possible writings
Shinobu can be written using different kanjiKanji
Kanji are the adopted logographic Chinese characters hanzi that are used in the modern Japanese writing system along with hiragana , katakana , Indo Arabic numerals, and the occasional use of the Latin alphabet...
characters and can mean:
- 忍ぶ, "stealth / endure"
- 偲ぶ, "recall / remember"
- 慕ぶ, "recall / remember"
as a given name
- 忍, "stealth / endure"
- 清信, "purify, belief"
- 志信, "intention, belief"
as a male given name
- 信夫, "belief, man"
The name can also be written in hiragana
Hiragana
is a Japanese syllabary, one basic component of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana, kanji, and the Latin alphabet . Hiragana and katakana are both kana systems, in which each character represents one mora...
or katakana
Katakana
is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji, and in some cases the Latin alphabet . The word katakana means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana scripts are derived from components of more complex kanji. Each kana represents one mora...
.
People
- Shinobu AdachiShinobu Adachiis a female Japanese voice actor.- Television :* The Wonderful Adventures of Nils , Gacho* Maicching Machiko-sensei , Hiromi* Urusei Yatsura * Yume no Hoshi no Button Nose , Prince Flower...
(忍, born 1958), Japanese voice actress and actress - Shinobu AsagoeShinobu AsagoeShinobu Asagoe is a Japanese former professional tennis player. She turned professional in 1997, and retired in 2006.-Career:2000 was the first year in which she finished in the WTA top 100 . In the US Open that year, she defeated Patty Schnyder, a top 50 player...
(しのぶ, born 1976), Japanese professional tennis player - Shinobu FukuharaShinobu Fukuharais a Japanese baseball pitcher for the Hanshin Tigers. He was the number three draft pick for the Hanshin Tigers in 1999.-Career statistics :-External links:*...
(忍, born 1976), Japanese baseball pitcher - Shinobu HashimotoShinobu HashimotoShinobu Hashimoto is a Japanese screenwriter, director, producer, and was a frequent collaborator with Akira Kurosawa.He has won some 16 awards for his writing including a succession of Blue Ribbon Awards particularly in the 1960s....
(忍, born 1918), Japanese screenwriter, director, and producer - Shinobu "Inoran" Inoue (清信, born 1970), Japanese rock musician
- Shinobu IshiharaShinobu Ishiharawas a Japanese ophthalmologist who created the Ishihara color test to detect colour blindness.-Early life and career:Shinobu graduated from medicine in 1905 on a military scholarship and immediately joined the army as a doctor, serving mainly as a surgeon...
(忍, 1879–1963), Japanese ophthalmologist - Shinobu Ito (born 1983), former Japanese football player
- Shinobu KandoriShinobu Kandoriis a retired Japanese wrestler and now politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet...
(忍, born 1964), Japanese female wrestler and politician - Shinobu MurakiShinobu MurakiShinobu Muraki is a Japanese production designer and art director. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for his work in Akira Kurosawa's film Ran .- Filmography :as production designer...
(born 1923), Japanese production designer and art director - Shinobu NakayamaShinobu NakayamaShinobu Nakayama is an actress and a former J-pop singer. She was born in Tokyo, Japan, and released her first single on 2 November 1988. Her final release as a J-pop artist was on 1 March 1991. She was a member of the short-lived idol groups Nanatsuboshi and Rakutenshi...
(忍, born 1973), Japanese actress and a former J-pop singer - Shinobu OhnoShinobu Ohnois a Japanese football player who plays as a forward. Her club team, as of 2011, is INAC Kobe Leonessa.After playing in the U-19 and U-20 teams for a short period, Ohno joined the senior Japanese national team in 2003. Her first major tournament was the 2006 AFC Women's Asian Cup, where Japan...
(忍, born 1984), Japanese female football player - Shinobu OhtakaShinobu Ohtaka. is a Japanese manga artist, and the author of Sumomomo Momomo manga series and recently, Magi-Labyrinth of Magic.-References:...
(忍), Japanese manga artist - Shinobu OrikuchiShinobu Orikuchi, also known as , was a Japanese ethnologist, linguist, folklorist, novelist, and poet. As a disciple of Kunio Yanagita, he established an original academic field named , which is a mixture of Japanese folklore, Japanese classics, and Shintō...
(信夫, 1887–1953), Japanese ethnologist, linguist, folklorist, novelist, and poet - Shinobu Ōtake (しのぶ, born 1957), Japanese actress
- Shinobu OtowaShinobu Otowais a Japanese enka singer.She was born as Chieko Yoshimura in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi.- Singles :* しのぶの渡り鳥 9/5/2001* しのぶの一番纏 5/21/2002...
(しのぶ, born 1977), Japanese enka singer - Shinobu SatoShinobu satoShinobu Sato , is a Japanese classical artist. Shinobu debuted in 1988 with the tape Red Dragonfly: World Music on Guitar, which was released on audio CD in 1992. His second major album, Little Signs of Autumn was released on audio CD in 1994.-Early life:Shinobu was born in Kobe, Japan, and began...
(born 1955), Japanese classical artist - Shinobu SatouchiShinobu Satouchiis a seiyū who is best known as the voice of Fox McCloud in the Japanese version of Nintendo's Star Fox series and Super Smash Bros. series. He was also the voice of Giru in Dragon Ball GT...
(信夫), Japanese voice actor - Shinobu SekineShinobu Sekineis a retired judoka.-Biography:Sekine was born in Ōarai, Ibaraki, and entered the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department after graduating from Chuo University. He sought a spot on the Olympic judo team after seeing Isao Okano, a rival judoka also from Ibaraki Prefecture, win gold at the 1964 Summer...
(忍, born 1943), Japanese judoka - Shinobu Sugawara, a Japanese wrestler
- Shinobu Tanaka (しのぶ), Japanese game music composer
- Shinobu TannoShinobu TannoShinobu Tanno is a Japanese illustrator, born in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.Tanno graduated in 1997 from Ritsumeikan University...
(忍, born 1973), Japanese illustrator - Shinobu Tsukasa (忍, born 1942), Japanese yakuza overlord
- Shinobu YaguchiShinobu Yaguchiis a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He specializes in feel-good "zero to hero" films, where a group of people take up an unlikely activity, face a number of obstacles, but finally succeed. His film Waterboys was particularly successful and led to a TV series which entered its third...
(史靖, born 1967), Japanese film director and screenwriter - Wakanosato ShinobuWakanosato ShinobuWakanosato Shinobu is a professional sumo wrestler from Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan. He has been ranked mostly in the top division since 1998, and his highest rank has been sekiwake. He holds the record for the most consecutive tournaments ranked in the junior sanyaku ranks of sekiwake and komusubi...
(忍, born 1976), Japanese professional sumo wrestler
- Shinobu KaitaniShinobu Kaitaniis a manga artist from Kagoshima, Japan and a recipient of the 1991 Tezuka Award.His most notable works are One Outs and Liar Game. He has mentioned in an interview that he was inspired to write Liar Game after visiting a local bar in Kagoshima....
(born 1967), manga artist and a recipient of the 1991 Tezuka Award - Shinobu KitamotoShinobu KitamotoShinobu Kitamoto is a Japanese sprint canoer who has competed since the mid 2000s. She won a bronze medal in the K-1 200 m event at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań, the first person from Japan to medal at the world championships.Competing in two Summer Olympics, Kitamoto...
(born 1977), Japanese sprint canoer - Shinobu Terajima (born 1972), Japanese actress
- Shinobu Ikeda (born 1962), Japanese footballer
Characters
- Shinobu Jacobs (シノブ), a character in the video game No More Heroes
- Shinobu Handa, a character in the anime and manga series Shōjo SectShojo Sectis a Japanese adult manga series written and illustrated by manga author Ken Kurogane. The manga was serialized in the adult manga magazine Comic MegaStore between June 17, 2003 and June 17, 2005 and was later released as two bound volume...
- Shinobu Ijūin (忍), a character in the manga and anime series Haikara-san ga TōruHaikara-san ga Toru, also known as Smart-san or Mademoiselle Anne, is a Japanese shōjo manga series by Waki Yamato. It was serialized by Kodansha in the magazine Shōjo Friend from 1975 to 1977...
- Shinobu KagurazakaShinobu Kagurazakais a character in the manga and anime series Tenjho Tenge. He is a member of the Executive Council, and the head of the Mitsuomi Guard.- Character outline :...
(忍), a character in the manga and anime series Tenjho Tenge - Shinobu Maehara (しのぶ), a character in the manga and anime series Love Hina
- Shinobu Miyake (しのぶ), a character in the manga and anime series Urusei Yatsura
- Shinobu Morita (忍), a character in the manga, anime, and TV drama series Honey and CloverHoney and Cloveris a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Chika Umino. It is also known as and H&C. It is published by Shueisha, initially serialized from June 2000 to July 2006 in the magazines CUTiEcomic, Young YOU, and Chorus, and collected in ten bound volumes...
- Shinobu Oshino (忍), a character in the light novel and anime BakemonogatariBakemonogatariis a Japanese popular light novel series written by Japanese novelist Nisio Isin and illustrated by Taiwanese illustrator Vofan; the series is published by Kodansha under the Kodansha Box imprint...
- Shinobu Sensui (忍), a character from the anime and manga series YuYu Hakushoouryou
- Shinobu (忍), a ninja trainee in "2x2 Shinobuden", aka Ninja NonsenseNinja Nonsenseis Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ryoichi Koga. The series subtitle is "The Nonsense Kunoichi Fiction". The manga was serialized in MediaWorks' Dengeki Daioh magazine between August 2000 and March 2006; the chapters were later compiled into four tankōbon volumes...
- Shinobu Takeda, a fictional character that appears in the comic book series W.I.T.C.H.W.I.T.C.H.W.I.T.C.H. is an Italian fantasy/Magical girl comic series created by Elisabetta Gnone, Alessandro Barbucci and Barbara Canepa. It tells the story of five teenage girls who are chosen to be the new Guardians of Kandrakar, protectors of the center of the universe from people and creatures who wish...
- Shinobu Takatsuki, a character in the anime and manga series Junjo RomanticaJunjo Romantica, stylized as Junjo Romantica ~Pure Romance~, is a yaoi series by Shungiku Nakamura. It focuses on three storylines; the main couple, which comprises the bulk of the books, and two other male couples which provide ongoing side stories...
- Shinobu Fujiwara (藤原忍), a character in the anime series Dancouga – Super Beast Machine GodDancouga – Super Beast Machine Godis a super robot anime television series. The show ran for 38 episodes from 4 April 1985 to 17 December 1985 and was produced by Ashi Productions...
- Shinobu Mouryou, a character in the Comic/short film series Contemplating REIKOContemplating ReikoContemplating Reiko is a webcomic by New York born artist Vincent Grisanti. With a focus on dark humor, the Contemplating Reiko comics primarily consist of single-panel, black and white cartoon gags, with the notable addition of the sparing use of the color red...
- Captain Shinobu Nagumo , a character in Mobile Police Patlabor
See also
- Shinobi no MonoNinjaA or was a covert agent or mercenary of feudal Japan specializing in unorthodox arts of war. The functions of the ninja included espionage, sabotage, infiltration, and assassination, as well as open combat in certain situations...
(忍びの者), is an alternative name for ninja - Ninin Ga ShinobudenNinin Ga Shinobudenis Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ryoichi Koga. The series subtitle is "The Nonsense Kunoichi Fiction". The manga was serialized in MediaWorks' Dengeki Daioh magazine between August 2000 and March 2006; the chapters were later compiled into four tankōbon volumes...
, a manga and anime series