Hisashi

This article is about the name. For the architectural feature, see hisashi (architecture).

Hisashi is a masculine Japanese given name. Its meaning differs depending on the kanji used to write it.

Kanji

Single kanji used to write the name Hisashi include:

• 久: "long time"
• 永: "eternal"
• 尚: "still"
• 準: "standard"
• 彌: "complete"
• 長: "long"
• 寿: "life" (also with the kyūjitai variant 壽)
• 昶: "long day"

There are more than a hundred different ways to write the name using two or three characters.

People with the name

• Hisashi Abe (阿部 永, born 1933), Japanese zoologist
• Hisashi Eguchi (江口 寿史, born 1956), Japanese manga artist
• Hisashi Hirai (平井 久司, born 1959), Japanese manga artist
• Hisashi Igawa (井川 比佐志, born 1936), Japanese actor
• Hisashi Imai (今井 寿, born 1965), Japanese guitarist and songwriter
• Hisashi Inoue (井上 ひさし, 1934–2010), Japanese writer and playwright
• Hisashi Inoue (historian) (井上 久士, born 1950), Japanese historian
• Hisashi Jogo (城後 寿, born 1986), Japanese footballer
• Hisashi Kasai (葛西 久, born 1943), Japanese ice hockey player
• Hisashi Kato (加藤 久, born 1956), Japanese football manager
• Hisashi Kobayashi (小林 久志, born 1938), Japanese electrical engineer and computer scientist
• Hisashi Kuno (久野 久, 1910–1969), Japanese geologist
• Hisashi Kurosaki (黒崎 久志, born 1968), Japanese football player
• Matsuoka Hisashi (松岡 寿, 1862–1944), Japanese painter
• Hisashi Mizugami (水上 久, born 1925), Japanese alpine skier
• Hisashi Mizutori (水鳥 寿思, born 1980), Japanese gymnast
• Hisashi Namekata (増田 康宏, born 1973), Japanese shogi player
• Hisashi Nogami (野上恒, born 1971), Japanese video game developer
• Hisashi Nozawa (野沢 尚, 1960–2004), Japanese screenwriter and mystery novelist
• Hisashi Ogura (小倉 久史, born 1968), Japanese shogi player
• Hisashi Takeda (武田 久, born 1978), Japanese baseball player
• Hisashi Tonomura (外村 尚, born 1972), known mononymously as Hisashi (musician)
• Hisashi Tsuchida (土田 尚史, born 1967), Japanese football player
• Hisashi Yamada (山田 久志, born 1948), Japanese baseball pitcher
• Yamaguchi Hisashi (山口 久, 1952–2010), Japanese sumo wrestler
• Hisashi Yamamoto (山本 尚, born 1943), Japanese organic chemist
• Hisashi Mitakeumi (御嶽海 久司, born 1992), Japanese sumo wrestler

Fictional characters

• Hisashi Kinoshita (木下 久志), a character from Haikyu!! with the position of wing spiker from Karasuno High
• Hisashi Mitsui (三井 寿), a character from Slam Dunk

See also

• Joe Hisaishi (久石 譲, born 1950), Japanese composer