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'' (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 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'' *, a Japanese '' ukiyo-e'' 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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