Yamashiro is a Japanese word with ''

kanji are logographic Chinese characters, adapted from Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script, used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are ...

'' often meaning ''mountain castle'' (山城). There are however other kanji spellings. * Yamashiro, Kyoto, former town in Japan * Yamashiro, Tokushima, former town in Japan *

Yamashiro Province was a province of Japan, located in Kinai. It overlaps the southern part of modern Kyoto Prefecture on Honshū. Aliases include , the rare , and . It is classified as an upper province in the '' Engishiki''. Yamashiro Province included Kyoto it ...

, former Japanese province * Japanese battleship ''Yamashiro'', a battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy * Yamashiro Onsen, an onsen in Kaga, Ishikawa province * Yamashiro Park Taiyogaoka Stadium, an athletic stadium in Uji, Kyoto, Japan * Yamashiro Historic District, a villa, restaurant, and gardens in Los Angeles, California * Yamashiro, or yamajiro, category of Japanese castle in which the main structures are located on a mountain In addition to kanji variation, the word could also be read as ''Yamagusuku'' in the

Ryukyu Islands The , also known as the or the , are a chain of Japanese islands that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Geography of Taiwan, Taiwan: the Ryukyu Islands are divided into the Satsunan Islands (Ōsumi Islands, Ōsumi, Tokara Islands, Tokara and A ...

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Yamashiro is also a

Japanese surname Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

. In the

Okinawan language Okinawan (, , , ), or more precisely Central Okinawan, is a Northern Ryukyuan languages, Ryukyuan language spoken primarily in the southern half of the Okinawa Island, island of Okinawa, as well as in the surrounding islands of Kerama Islands, K ...

, the kanji is read Yamagusuku. Notable people with the surname include: * Prince Yamashiro (d.643) * Danny Yamashiro (1967- ) * Hiroshi Yamashiro (1958- ) * Junya Yamashiro (1985- ) * Rafael Yamashiro (1963- ) * Shingo Yamashiro (1938–2009) * Shoji Yamashiro, pseudonym for Tsutomu Ōhashi * Stephen K. Yamashiro (1941–2011) * Mary Yamashiro Otani (1923–2005) * Augusto Miyashiro Yamashiro (1949- )

Fictional characters

* Aoba Yamashiro * Tatsu Yamashiro

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