Hōei Nojiri

Hōei Nojiri (野尻 抱影) was a Japanese essayist and astronomer. He was a brother of the novelist Nojiri Haruhikoˀ, whose pen name was Osaragi Jirō.

In 1930 he coined the Japanese word "Star of the King (God) of the Underworld" (冥王星) for the then-newly-discovered dwarf planet Pluto. The name was then borrowed into Chinese and Korean.