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
Isamu can be written using different
kanji
are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script and 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 ...
characters and can mean:
*勇, "courage" or "bravery"
*勲, "merit"
*敢, "gallantry"
*武, "war"
The name can also be written in
hiragana
is a 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" originally as contrast ...
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 fr ...
.
People
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Isamu Akasaki
was a Japanese engineer and physicist, specializing in the field of semiconductor technology and Nobel Prize laureate, best known for inventing the bright gallium nitride (GaN) p-n junction blue LED in 1989 and subsequently the high-brightness G ...
(赤崎 勇, 1929–2021), Japanese scientist
*
Isamu Chō
was an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army known for his support of ultranationalist politics and involvement in a number of attempted coup d'états in pre-World War II Japan.
Biography
Chō was a native of Fukuoka prefecture. He graduated ...
(長 勇, 1895–1945), Japanese general
*, Japanese racewalker
*
Isamu Imakake
is a Japanese animator, screenwriter, television director and producer. He also worked as illustrator for some manga like ''Geobreeders''.
His directorial work, ''The Mystical Laws'', was submitted for the Academy Award for Best Animated Fea ...
, director of Captain Tsubasa
*, Japanese politician
*, Japanese actor and film director
*
Isamu Noguchi
was an American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. Known for his sculpture and public artworks, Noguchi also designed stage sets for various Martha Graham productions, and several ...
(野口 勇, 1904–1988), Japanese-American artist and landscape architect
*, Japanese skier
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Isamu Shibayama
Isamu 'Art' Carlos Shibayama (イサム カルロス 柴山, 1930 – July 31, 2018) was a Peruvian-American civil rights activist who fought for the rights of Latin Americans of Japanese ancestry who were illegally interned in the United States d ...
(1930-2018), Peruvian-American civil rights activist
*
Isamu Sonoyama
was a Japanese politician. He was born in Shimane Prefecture. He served in the House of Representatives of the Empire of Japan. He was governor of Nagano Prefecture (1898-1899) and Miyazaki Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture o ...
(園山 勇, 1848–1921), Japanese politician
*
Isamu Takeshita
was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy. He was also a diplomat whose accomplishments included helping end the Russo-Japanese War favorably for Japan and obtaining former German possessions in the Pacific for Japan following World War I. In ...
(1869–1949), Japanese Imperial Navy admiral
*
Isamu Tanonaka
was a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator from Taitō, Tokyo. He was best known for voicing Medama Oyaji in nearly every adaptation of Shigeru Mizuki's '' GeGeGe no Kitarō'' made during his lifetime.
Career
During his life he had been atta ...
(田の中勇, 1932–2010), Japanese voice actor
*
Yoshii Isamu
Count was a Japanese ''tanka'' poet and playwright active in Taishō and Shōwa period Japan. Attracted to European romanticism in his youth, his later works were more subdued.
Early life
Yoshii Isamu was born in the elite Takanawa district Toky ...
(吉井勇, 1886–1960), Japanese poet and playwright
*Isamu Yamada or
Knock Yokoyama
was a Japanese politician and comedian.
Born Isamu Yamada (山田勇 ''Yamada Isamu'') in Kobe, he adopted his current stage name while directing the ''Manga Trio'' manzai troupe from 1959 to 1968. Following his comedy years, he went into the ...
(山田勇, 1932–2007), Japanese comedian and politician
*
Isamu Sonoda
is a retired Olympic champion Japanese judoka who competed in the middleweight (-80 kg) division.
Biography
Sonoda was born in Yanagawa, Fukuoka, Japan. He attended the Fukuoka Institute of Technology, and won a gold medal at the 1969 W ...
(born 1946), retired judoka who competed in the middleweight (-80 kg) division
Fictional characters
*Isamu Nakane, a character in ''
Obasan
''Obasan'' is a novel by Japanese-Canadian author Joy Kogawa. First published by Lester and Orpen Dennys in 1981, it chronicles Canada's internment and persecution of its citizens of Japanese descent during the Second World War from the perspec ...
''
*
Isamu Alva Dyson
The following is a list of all the fictional characters within the ''Macross'' anime franchise.
''The Super Dimension Fortress Macross''
Humans
* Hikaru Ichijyo ( Arihiro Hase and Kenji Nojima/Vic Mignogna)The Super Dimension Fortress Macros ...
, a character in ''Macross'' anime
*
Isamu Ozu
is a masculine Japanese given name.
Possible writings
Isamu can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
*勇, "courage" or "bravery"
*勲, "merit"
*敢, "gallantry"
*武, "war"
The name can also be written in hiragana or katak ...
, a character in tokusatsu show ''
Mahou Sentai Magiranger Mahou or is the Japanese word for "magic", "sorcery" or "witchcraft".
Mahou may also refer to:
*Mahou (beer), brewed by the Spanish brewing company Grupo Mahou-San Miguel
*Mahou-San Miguel Group, a Spanish brewing company
*Mahou, Mali
*Magical C ...
''
*Isamu Nitta, a character in ''
Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne'' video game
*Take Isamu, the protagonist of the manga ''Buyuden''
*Doll Isamu, a character in ''
Super Doll Licca-chan
is a Japanese anime television series which ran on TV Tokyo in 1998–1999. Kodansha also serialized a manga based on the anime series in its monthly manga magazine ''Nakayoshi''. The story follows an ordinary elementary school girl named Li ...
''
*Isamu Akai, a character from the
Pocket Monsters manga
*Isamu Kurogane, a character from the
Beast King GoLion
is a Japanese super robot anime television series. The animation from ''GoLion'' was edited and trimmed to create the version of the American '' Voltron: Defender of the Universe'' series, with new names and dialogue. In 2008, ''GoLion'' was ...
series
*, a character from
The Kindaichi Case Files
is a Japanese mystery manga series based on the crime solving adventures of a high school student, Hajime Kindaichi, the supposed grandson of the famous (fictional) private detective Kosuke Kindaichi. Written by Yōzaburō Kan ...
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Japanese masculine given names