Kiyoshi

Possible meanings

• Kyōshi, a form of Japanese poetry
• Kyōshi, a Japanese honorific

Written forms

• 清, "cleanse"
• 淳, "pure"
• 潔, "undefiled"
• 清志, "cleanse, intention"
• 清司, "cleanse, official"
• 聖, "holy"
• 澄, "lucidity"
• 潔司, "undefiled, official"

People with the name

• Akira Kawabata, pro wrestler
• Kiyoshi Abe, Japanese sport wrestler
• Kiyoshi Adachi, Japanese pole vaulter
• Kiyoshi Atsumi, Japanese film actor
• Kiyoshi Doi, Japanese baseball player
• Kiyoshi Esashika, Japanese ice hockey player
• Kiyoshi Fujita, Japanese ice hockey player
• Kiyoshi Hasegawa (admiral), Japanese admiral
• Kiyoshi Hasegawa (artist), Japanese artist
• Kiyoshi Hikawa, Japanese Enka singer
• Hiraizumi Kiyoshi, Japanese historian and Shinto priest
• Kiyoshi Ijichi, Japanese drummer of Asian Kung-Fu Generation
• Kiyoshi Ikenaga, a Shiatsu Master, Shiatsupractor,
• Kiyoshi Inoue, Japanese academic, historian and writer
• Kiyoshi Itô, Japanese mathematician
• Kiyoshi Katsuki, Japanese general soldier
• Kiyoshi Kawakami, Japanese Christian journalist
• Kiyoshi Kawakubo, Japanese voice actor
• Kiyoshi Kimura, Japanese businessman
• Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Japanese actor
• Kiyoshi Koishi, Japanese photographer
• Kiyoshi Kuromiya, Japanese American author and advocate
• Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japanese film director
• Kiyoshi Maita, Japanese golfer
• Kiyoshi Miki, Japanese philosopher
• Kiyoshi K. Muranaga, soldier
• Kyoshi Miura, Japanese cyclist
• Kiyoshi Myobudani, Japanese sumo wrestler
• Kiyoshi Nakakura, Japanese kendoka, iaidoka and aikidoka
• Kiyoshi Nakamura (disambiguation), multiple people
• Kiyoshi Nakano, Japanese politician
• Kiyoshi Nishiyama, Japanese photographer
• Kiyoshi Nishiyama (handballer), Japanese handball player
• Kiyoshi Nobutoki, Japanese composer
• Kiyoshi Noda, Japanese handball player
• Kiyoshi Ogawa, Japanese navy pilot
• Kiyoshi Oka, Japanese mathematician
• Kiyoshi Ōkubo, Japanese murderer
• Kiyoshi Okuma, Japanese former football player
• Kiyoshi Saitō (disambiguation), multiple people
• Kiyoshi Sakai, Japanese anime producer and animator
• Kiyoshi Sasabe, Japanese film director
• Kiyoshi Shiga, Japanese physician and bacteriologist
• Kiyoshi Sonobe, Japanese photographer
• Kiyoshi Suzuki, Japanese photographer
• Kyoshi Takahama, Japanese poet
• Kiyoshi Takayama, Japanese Yakuza
• Kiyoshi Tamura, Japanese professional wrestler
• Kiyoshi Tanabe, Japanese boxer
• Kiyoshi Tanimoto, Japanese Methodist minister
• Kiyoshi Tomizawa, Japanese footballer
• Kiyoshi Toyoda, Japanese baseball player
• Kiyoshi Uchiyama, Japanese consul
• Kiyoshi Ueda, Japanese politician
• Kiyoshi Uehara, Japanese fencer
• Kiyoshi Uematsu, Japanese judōka
• Kiyoshi Yamashita, Japanese artist
• Kiyoshi Yoshimoti, Japanese ''kobudōka''

Fictional characters

• Kiyoshi, from Hanazuki: Full of Treasures
• Kiyoshi Minamoto, from Battle Royale II: Requiem
• Kiyoshi Tani, from the novel We Are Not Free by Traci Chee
• , from the Indonesian program television show in and Karma
• Avatar Kyoshi, a minor character from Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra, in which she is deceased but eventually became the heroine in her own book series
• Kiyoshi Teppei, from ''Kuroko's Basketball''

Literature

• The Legend of Kyoshi, a fantasy novel duology set in the Avatar franchise
• *The Rise of Kyoshi, the first book in the series, published on July 16, 2019
• *The Shadow of Kyoshi, the second book in the series, published on July 21, 2020