Yanase (surname)

Yanase (written: 柳瀬, 簗瀬 or やなせ in hiragana) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Akihiro Yanase (柳瀬 明宏), Japanese baseball player
 * Akira Yanase (柳瀬 彰良), Japanese water polo player
 * Kaori Yanase (簗瀬 かおり), Japanese swimmer
 * Natsumi Yanase (やなせ なつみ), Japanese voice actress
 * Susumu Yanase (簗瀬 進), Japanese politician
 * Takashi Yanase (やなせ たかし), Japanese writer, poet, illustrator and lyricist

Fictional characters

 * Kaori Yanase (Variable Geo) (梁瀬 かおり), a character in the video game Variable Geo