Hisashi

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:
 * "long time"
 * "eternal"
 * "still"
 * "standard"
 * "complete"
 * "long"
 * "life" (also with the kyūjitai variant )
 * "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), Japanese zoologist
 * Hisashi Eguchi (江口 寿史), Japanese manga artist
 * Hisashi Hirai (平井 久司), Japanese manga artist
 * Hisashi Igawa (井川 比佐志), Japanese actor
 * Hisashi Imai (今井 寿), Japanese guitarist and songwriter
 * Hisashi Inoue (井上 ひさし), Japanese writer and playwright
 * Hisashi Inoue (historian) (井上 久士), Japanese historian
 * Hisashi Jogo (城後 寿), Japanese footballer
 * Hisashi Kasai (葛西 久), Japanese ice hockey player
 * Hisashi Kato (加藤 久), Japanese football manager
 * Hisashi Kobayashi (小林 久志), Japanese electrical engineer and computer scientist
 * Hisashi Kuno (久野 久), Japanese geologist
 * Hisashi Kurosaki (黒崎 久志), Japanese football player
 * Matsuoka Hisashi (松岡 寿), Japanese painter
 * Hisashi Mizugami (水上 久), Japanese alpine skier
 * Hisashi Mizutori (水鳥 寿思), Japanese gymnast
 * Hisashi Namekata (増田 康宏), Japanese shogi player
 * Hisashi Nogami (野上恒), Japanese video game developer
 * Hisashi Nozawa (野沢 尚), Japanese screenwriter and mystery novelist
 * Hisashi Ogura (小倉 久史), Japanese shogi player
 * Hisashi Takeda (武田 久), Japanese baseball player
 * Hisashi Tonomura (外村 尚), known mononymously as Hisashi (musician)
 * Hisashi Tsuchida (土田 尚史), Japanese football player
 * Hisashi Yamada (山田 久志), Japanese baseball pitcher
 * Yamaguchi Hisashi (山口 久), Japanese sumo wrestler
 * Hisashi Yamamoto (山本 尚), Japanese organic chemist
 * Hisashi Mitakeumi (御嶽海 久司), 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