shinobi
A or was a covert agent or mercenary in feudal Japan. The functions of a ninja included reconnaissance, espionage, infiltration, deception, ambush, bodyguarding and their fighting skills in martial arts, including ninjutsu.Kawakami, pp. 21– ...
'' which can be combined with ''mono'' (者) to make ''shinobi no mono'' (忍びの者), an alternative name of ninja.
Possible writings
Shinobu can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
;as a given name
*忍, "endurance/perseverance/patience"
*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 or katakana, though hiragana is typically reserved for females and katakana for foreign-born Japanese.
People
* Shinobu Adachi (忍, born 1958), Japanese voice actress and actress
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Shinobu Asagoe
is a Japanese former 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 (No. 72). At the US Open that year, she defeated Patty Schnyder, a top-50 playe ...
(しのぶ, born 1976), Japanese professional tennis player
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Shinobu Fukuhara
is a retired Japanese baseball pitcher for the Hanshin Tigers
The Hanshin Tigers (Japanese: 阪神タイガース ''Hanshin Taigāsu'') are a Nippon Professional Baseball team playing in the Central League. The team is based in Nishinomiya, H ...
(忍, born 1976), Japanese baseball pitcher
* Shinobu Hashimoto (忍, born 1918), Japanese screenwriter, director, and producer
* Shinobu "Inoran" Inoue (清信, born 1970), Japanese rock musician
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Shinobu Ishihara
Shinobu Ishihara (石原 忍, ''Ishihara Shinobu'', Tokyo, September 25, 1879 – Izu Peninsula, January 3, 1963) was a Japanese ophthalmologist who created the Ishihara color test to detect colour blindness. He was an army surgeon.
Early li ...
(忍, 1879–1963), Japanese ophthalmologist
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Shinobu Iwane
is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 3-dan.
Promotion history
Iwane's promotion history is as follows.
* 1-kyū: April 1, 2004
* 1-dan: April 1, 2005
* 2-dan: March 9, 2009
* 3-dan: February 22, 2016
Note: All ranks are w ...
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professional shogi player
A professional shogi player (将棋棋士 ''shōgi kishi'' or プロ棋士 ''puro kishi'' "professional player") is a shogi player who is usually a member of a professional guild of shogi players.
There are two categories of professional player ...
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Shinobu Ito
is a former Japanese football player.
Playing career
Ito was born in Saitama Prefecture on May 7, 1983. After graduating from high school, he joined the J2 League club Cerezo Osaka in 2002. Cerezo won second place during the 2002 season an ...
(born 1983), former Japanese football player
* Shinobu Kandori (忍, born 1964), Japanese female wrestler and politician
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Shinobu Muraki
was a Japanese production designer and art director. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for her work in Akira Kurosawa's film ''Ran'' (1985).
She was married to Yoshirō Muraki.
Filmography (as production designer) ...
(born 1923), Japanese production designer and art director
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Shinobu Nakayama
is an actress and a former J-pop singer. The younger sister of singer and actress Miho Nakayama, she released her first single on 2 November 1988; her final release as a J-pop artist was on 1 March 1991. Nakayama was also a member of the short-l ...
(忍, born 1973), Japanese actress and a former J-pop singer
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Shinobu Ohno
is a Japanese Association football, footballer who plays as a forward (association football), forward for Nojima Stella Kanagawa Sagamihara. She formerly played for the Japan women's national football team.
Club career
Ohno was born in Zama, Ka ...
(忍, born 1984), Japanese female football player
* Shinobu Ohtaka (忍), Japanese manga artist
* Shinobu Orikuchi (信夫, 1887–1953), Japanese ethnologist, linguist, folklorist, novelist, and poet
* Shinobu Otake (しのぶ, born 1957), Japanese actress
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Shinobu Otowa
is a Japanese enka singer.
She was born as Chieko Yoshimura (吉村智恵子 ''Yoshimura Chieko'') in Shimonoseki
is a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. With a population of 265,684, it is the largest city in Yamaguchi Prefectu ...
(しのぶ, born 1977), Japanese enka singer
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Shinobu Sato
Shinobu Sato (born June 5, 1955), 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 re ...
(born 1955), Japanese classical artist
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Shinobu Satouchi
is a Japanese voice actor 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. He works at Aoni Production. Notable roles ...
(信夫), Japanese voice actor
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Shinobu Sekine
was a Japanese middleweight judoka. He won a gold medal at his only Olympics in 1972.
Biography
Sekine was born in Ōarai, Ibaraki, and entered the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department after graduating from Chuo University. He sought a spot on ...
(忍, born 1943), Japanese judoka
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Shinobu Tanno
Shinobu Tanno (丹野忍 ''Tanno Shinobu'', born 1973) is a Japanese illustrator, born in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.
Tanno graduated in 1997 from Ritsumeikan University. Self-taught, Tanno has illustrated in a number of fields, from CD cover desi ...
(忍, born 1973), Japanese illustrator
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Shinobu Tsukasa
, also known as , is a Japanese Yakuza, the sixth and current ''kumicho'' (supreme kingpin, or chairman) of the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest yakuza organization.
Career
Shinoda was born in Ōita, Kyushu.Shinobu Yaguchi (史靖, born 1967), Japanese film director and screenwriter
* Shinobu Sugawara, (菅原 忍, born 1980, Japanese professional wrestler)
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Shinobu Wakanosato
Wakanosato Shinobu (born Shinobu Kogawa; July 10, 1976) is a retired sumo wrestler from Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan. He made his debut in the top division in 1998, and his highest rank was '' sekiwake''. He holds the record for the most consecutive tou ...
(忍, born 1976), Japanese professional sumo wrestler
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Shinobu Kaitani
is a Japanese manga artist. His most notable works are ''One Outs'' and ''Liar Game''.
Shinobu is from Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture. He graduated from Kagoshima Prefectural Konan High School and from Department of Electronics Engineerin ...
(born 1967), manga artist and a recipient of the 1991 Tezuka Award
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Shinobu 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.
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(born 1977), Japanese sprint canoer
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Shinobu Terajima
is a Japanese actress. Her feature films include ''Akame 48 Waterfalls'' (2003) and '' Vibrator'' (2003). For her role in ''Caterpillar'' (2010), Terajima won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 60th Berlin Film Festival while her performanc ...
(born 1972), Japanese actress
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Shinobu Ikeda
is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team. He also managed Japan women's national team.
Club career
Ikeda was born in Shizuoka Prefecture on January 5, 1962. After graduating from Shizuoka Gakuen High School, he j ...
Shinobu Jacobs
is a 2007 action-adventure video game for the Wii. It was developed by Grasshopper Manufacture and published by Marvelous Entertainment, Ubisoft, and Rising Star Games. The game was directed, designed, and written by Goichi Suda, also known by his ...
(シノブ), a character in the video game ''No More Heroes''
*Shinobu Handa, a character in the anime and manga series ''
Shōjo Sect
is a Japanese adult yuri manga series written and illustrated by Kenn Kurogane. The manga was serialized in the adult manga magazine ''Comic MegaStore'' from June 17, 2003, to June 17, 2005, and was later released as two bound volumes. A li ...
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*Shinobu Ijūin (忍), a character in the manga and anime series ''
Haikara-san ga Tōru
, 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. The title can be literally translated into E ...
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* Shinobu Kagurazaka (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''
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Shinobu Miyake
The ''Urusei Yatsura'' manga series features a large ensemble cast of characters created by Rumiko Takahashi. It tells the story of Japanese teenager Ataru Moroboshi, and the alien Lum, who believes she is Ataru's wife after he accidentally pro ...
(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 Clover''
*Shinobu Kamiki (上喜しのぶ) a character in the Mobile Games and anime series '' Princess Connect! Re:Dive''
*Shinobu Kocho (しのぶ), a supporting character in the manga and anime series '' Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba.''
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Shinobu Sensui
The ''YuYu Hakusho'' manga series features a diverse cast of fictional characters created by Yoshihiro Togashi. It follows fourteen-year-old junior high school delinquent Yusuke Urameshi, who dies and is resurrected in order to become the Under ...
(忍), a character from the anime and manga series ''YuYu Hakusho''
*Shinobu (忍), a ninja trainee in "2x2 Shinobuden", aka '' Ninja Nonsense''
*Shinobu, a
chinchilla
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on the animated sitcom Bob's Burgers
*Shinobu Takeda, a fictional character that appears in the comic book series ''
W.I.T.C.H.
''W.I.T.C.H.'' (stylised as ''W.i.t.c.h.'') is an Italian fantasy Disney comics series created by Elisabetta Gnone, Alessandro Barbucci, and Barbara Canepa. The series features a group of five teenage girls who become the guardians of the classi ...
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*Shinobu Takatsuki, a character in the anime and manga series '' Junjo Romantica''
*Shinobu Fujiwara (藤原忍), a character in the anime series ''
Dancouga – Super Beast Machine God
is a Super Robot anime television series produced by Ashi Productions, directed by Seiji Okuda and written by Keisuke Fujikawa. It ran on TBS for 38 episodes from 5 April 1985 to 27 December 1985. The TV anime was licensed by Central ...
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Shinobu Nagumo
This is a character guide to the manga and anime series ''Mobile Police Patlabor''.
Characters Section 2 Division 2
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:English voice actors: Michael Schwartz (Central Park Media, TV/OVA), Peter Marinker (Manga, Movies 1-2), Roger C. Smit ...
, a character in ''Mobile Police Patlabor''
*Shinobu Kawajiri (しのぶ), a minor character in the manga and anime series '' Diamond is Unbreakable.''
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Shinobu Sengoku
is a Japanese verb meaning or . It is a Japanese given name used by either sex. Shinobu is also the Lemma (morphology), dictionary form of ''shinobi'' which can be combined with ''mono'' (者) to make ''shinobi no mono'' (忍びの者), an alt ...
, a character from the game ''
Ensemble Stars
Ensemble may refer to:
Art
* Architectural ensemble
* ''Ensemble'' (album), Kendji Girac 2015 album
* Ensemble (band), a project of Olivier Alary
* Ensemble cast (drama, comedy)
* Ensemble (musical theatre), also known as the chorus
* ''E ...