Katori can refer to:

Places

* Katori, Chiba, a city in Japan *

Katori District, Chiba is a district located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. The district dates back to the Taika Reform in the 7th century, and Katori District remained part of Shimōsa Province until the establishment of Chiba Prefecture. Historically Katori District occ ...

Katori Shrine The is a Shintō shrine in the city of Katori in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It is the ''ichinomiya'' of former Shimōsa Province, and is the head shrine of the approximately 400 Katori shrines around the country (located primarily in the Kantō re ...

Katori Station a junction passenger railway station in the city of Katori, Chiba Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). Lines Katori Station is served by the Narita Line, and is located 43.6 kilometers from the terminus of line at Sakura ...

, junction passenger railway station *

Katori Sea The refers to the vanished inland sea formerly located in the eastern part of the ancient Kantō Plain connected to the Pacific Ocean, between the prefectures of Ibaraki and Chiba in Japan. Inland sea In the Jōmon period part of the Kant� ...

, was an inland sea

People

Katori Masaru , who is also known by the pen name , is a Japanese writer and manga author from Fukuoka. She had a successful career as professional shogi player but quit during a sex scandal with another professional player, Makoto Nakahara, in 1995. Since t ...

, author *

Hidetoshi Katori , is a Japanese physicist and professor at the University of Tokyo best known for having invented the magic wavelength technique for ultra precise optical lattice atomic clocks. Since 2011, Katori is also Chief Scientist at the Quantum Metrolog ...

, physicist *

Shingo Katori is a Japanese actor, singer, television host, radio personality. He was the youngest member of SMAP, one of the best-selling boy band in Asia. After the group's disbandment on 31 December 2016, Katori has been pursuing his solo career. He left ...

, actor, singer, member of the Japanese idol group SMAP

Ships

Japanese ship Katori At least three warships of Japan have borne the name ''Katori'': * ,was a of the Imperial Japanese Navy launched in 1905 and decommissioned in 1923 * , is a of the Imperial Japanese Navy launched in 1939 and sunk in 1944 * , a training vessel of ...

*, a battleship launched in 1905 and scrapped in 1924 *, an ocean liner and troop ship completed in 1913 and sunk in 1941 *''Katori Maru'', a cargo ship launched in 1938 and sunk in 1945 *, a cruiser launched in 1939 and sunk in 1944 *, a training ship commissioned in 1969 and withdrawn in 1998

Other

Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū Written as 天眞正傳香取神道流 before adoption (1946) of Tōyō kanji. is one of the oldest extant Japanese martial arts, and an exemplar of '' bujutsu''. The Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū was founded by Iizasa Ienao, born in 13 ...

, a Japanese martial art named after the Katori Shrine {{disambiguation, geo, surname, ship Japanese-language surnames