Umezu is a Japanese word. It may refer to a surname, spelled
梅 津 or 楳図, or it may have other meanings.
People
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Hideyuki Umezu (born 1955), Japanese voice actor
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Kazuo Umezu
is a Japanese manga artist, musician and actor. He is among the most famous authors of horror manga and has been vital for its development since the 1960s.
Life
Umezu was born in Kōya, Wakayama Prefecture, but raised in the mountainous Go ...
(born 1936), author of Japanese horror manga
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Kazutoki Umezu
is a Japanese jazz saxophonist.
He has performed with Tom Cora, Samm Bennett, Ruins, Michiyo Yagi
, a Japanese musician who studied koto under Tadao Sawai, Kazue Sawai and Satomi Kurauchi, and graduated from the NHK Professional Training ...
(born 1949), Japanese jazz saxophonist
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Yoshijirō Umezu (1882–1949), general in the
Imperial Japanese Army
The was the official ground-based armed force of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945. It was controlled by the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office and the Ministry of the Army, both of which were nominally subordinate to the Emperor o ...
in World War II
Other
*Umezu (梅酢), the
brine
Brine is a high-concentration solution of salt (NaCl) in water (H2O). In diverse contexts, ''brine'' may refer to the salt solutions ranging from about 3.5% (a typical concentration of seawater, on the lower end of that of solutions used for br ...
produced when preparing ''
umeboshi''; although the term translates as "plum vinegar", it is a misnomer.
See also
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He-Umezu Agreement (梅津・何応欽協定), a secret agreement between the Empire of Japan and the Republic of China concluded on 10 June 1935
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