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 ''

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 ...

'' (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

syllabaries In the linguistic study of written languages, a syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent the syllables or (more frequently) moras which make up words. A symbol in a syllabary, called a syllabogram, typically represents an (option ...

written Japanese The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana. Kana itself consists of a pair of syllabaries: hiragana, used primarily for native or naturalised Japanese wor ...

, 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 active i ...

*, the daughter of

Fusako Shigenobu is a Japanese Communism, communist activist and founder of the disbanded militant group Japanese Red Army (JRA).

*, 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 n ...

'' *, a Japanese ''

ukiyo-e Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surfac ...

'' 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 Shig ...

*, 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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