Takanobu is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
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Fujiwara Takanobu
Fujiwara no Takanobu ( ja, 藤原 隆信) (1142–1205) was one of the leading Japanese portrait artists of his day.
Takanobu was born in Kyoto, and was the half-brother of Fujiwara no Sadaie, one of Japan's greatest poets. Takanobu specialized ...
(1142–1205), Japanese portrait artist
*, Japanese weightlifter
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Matsura Takanobu
or Taqua Nombo was a 16th-century Japanese samurai and 25th hereditary lord of the Matsura clan of Hirado. He was one of the most powerful feudal lords of Kyūshū and one of the first to allow trading with Europeans, particularly the Portugu ...
(1529–1599), Japanese samurai
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Ryūzōji Takanobu
was a Japanese ''daimyō'' in Hizen Province during the Sengoku period.
Takanobu was the head of the Ryūzōji clan.
Biography
Takanobu was the grandson of Ryūzōji Iekane (1454-1546).
Ryūzōji Takanobu is known for expanding his clan's ho ...
(1530–1584), Japanese ''daimyō''
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Takanobu Hayashi
is a Japanese photographer.
Hayashi was born in Dalian, China, in 1946, but his family then quickly moved to Japan, first to Beppu ( Ōita) and then to Kyoto. He worked in a darkroom for a year after graduating from high school, and in 1965 move ...
, Japanese photographer
*, Japanese businessman
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Takanobu Jumonji (born 1975), Japanese cyclist
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Takanobu Komiyama (born 1984), Japanese footballer
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Takanobu Okabe
(born 26 October 1970) is a Japanese former ski jumper.
Career
His debut World Cup performance was on 16 December 1989 in Sapporo and at the moment he is the oldest ski jumper in a world of ski jumping. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he w ...
(born 1970), Japanese ski jumper
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Takanobu Otsubo
is a Japanese long-distance runner who specializes in the half marathon and ''ekiden''.
He finished seventeenth at the 2005 World Half Marathon Championships, which was good enough to help Japan finish third in the team competition.
His person ...
(born 1976), Japanese long-distance runner
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Takakeisho, real name Takanobu Satō (born 1996), Japanese sumo wrestler
*, Japanese academic and translator
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Japanese masculine given names