Shinobu


Shinobu is a Japanese verb meaning "recall" or "stealth/endure". It is a Japanese given name used by either sex. Shinobu is also the dictionary form of shinobi, which can be combined with mono to make shinobi no mono, an alternative name of ninja.

Written forms

Shinobu can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
;as a given name
  • 忍, "endurance/perseverance/patience"
  • 清信, "purify, belief"
  • 志信, "intention, belief"
;as a male given name
  • 信夫, "belief, man"
The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana, though hiragana is typically reserved for females and katakana for foreign-born Japanese.

People

  • Shinobu Adachi, Japanese voice actress and actress
  • Shinobu Asagoe, Japanese professional tennis player
  • Shinobu Fukuhara, Japanese baseball pitcher
  • Shinobu Hashimoto, Japanese screenwriter, director, and producer
  • Shinobu "Inoran" Inoue, Japanese rock musician
  • Shinobu Ishihara, Japanese ophthalmologist
  • Shinobu Iwane, professional shogi player
  • Shinobu Ito , former Japanese football player
  • Shinobu Kandori, Japanese female wrestler and politician
  • Shinobu Muraki, Japanese production designer and art director
  • Shinobu Nakayama, Japanese actress and a former J-pop singer
  • Shinobu Ohno, Japanese female football player
  • Shinobu Ohtaka, Japanese manga artist
  • Shinobu Orikuchi, Japanese ethnologist, linguist, folklorist, novelist, and poet
  • Shinobu Otake, Japanese actress
  • Shinobu Otowa, Japanese enka singer
  • Shinobu Sato, Japanese classical artist
  • Shinobu Satouchi, Japanese voice actor
  • Shinobu Sekine, Japanese judoka
  • Shinobu Tanno, Japanese illustrator
  • Shinobu Tsukasa, Japanese yakuza overlord
  • Shinobu Yaguchi, Japanese film director and screenwriter
  • Shinobu Sugawara,
  • Shinobu Wakanosato, Japanese professional sumo wrestler
  • Shinobu Kaitani, manga artist and a recipient of the 1991 Tezuka Award
  • Shinobu Kitamoto, Japanese sprint canoer
  • Shinobu Terajima, Japanese actress
  • Shinobu Ikeda, Japanese footballer

    Characters

  • Shinobu, a ninja trainee in "2x2 Shinobuden", aka Ninja Nonsense
  • Shinobu, a chinchilla on the animated sitcom Bob's Burgers
  • Shinobu Handa, a character in the anime and manga series Shōjo Sect
  • Shinobu Ijūin, a character in the manga and anime series Haikara-san ga Tōru
  • Shinobu Inuyose, a character from the music media franchise D4DJ
  • Shinobu Jacobs, a character in the video game No More Heroes
  • Shinobu Kagurazaka, a character in the manga and anime series Tenjho Tenge
  • Shinobu Maehara, a character in the manga and anime series Love Hina
  • Shinobu Miyake, a character in the manga and anime series Urusei Yatsura
  • Shinobu Morita, a character in the manga, anime, and TV drama series Honey and Clover
  • Shinobu Kamiki a character in the Mobile Games and anime series Princess Connect! Re:Dive
  • Shinobu Kawajiri, a minor character in the manga and anime series Diamond is Unbreakable.
  • Shinobu Kocho, a supporting character in the manga and anime series Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba.
  • Shinobu Oshino, a character in the light novel and anime series Monogatari
  • Shinobu Sarutobi, a character from the light novel series High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even in Another World
  • Shinobu Sengoku, a character from the game franchise Ensemble Stars!
  • Shinobu Sensui, a character from the anime and manga series YuYu Hakusho
  • Shinobu Takeda, a fictional character that appears in the comic book series W.I.T.C.H.
  • Shinobu Takatsuki, a character in the anime and manga series Junjo Romantica
  • Shinobu Fujiwara, a character in the anime series Dancouga – Super Beast Machine God
  • Captain Shinobu Nagumo, a character in Mobile Police Patlabor
  • Kuki Shinobu, a character in 2020 video game ''Genshin Impact''