Famous People with Name Nishi

Nishi Tokujiro            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Nishi Tokujiro: was a statesman and diplomat in Meiji period.Nishi was from a samurai family of the Satsuma domain (present-day Kagoshima prefecture). After the Meiji Restoration, he joined Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the new Meiji government, and was sent as a student to study the Russian language in St Petersburg, Russia in 1870. From 1870-1873, he traveled extensively through Central Asia, visiting Bukhara, Samarkand, Tashkent, Urumchi and other areas of east Turkistan. After serving as First Secretary at the Japanese legation in Paris, France in 1874, he returned to Japan.

Nishinoumi Kajiro II            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Nishinoumi Kajiro II: was a sumo wrestler. He was the sport's 25th Yokozuna. Nishinoumi was promoted to the top makuuchi division in May 1906. He was awarded a yokozuna licence by the house of Yoshida Tsukasa in February 1916 after winning a championship at January 1916 tourna

Nishinoumi Kajiro III            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Nishinoumi Kajiro III: was a sumo wrestler. He was the sport's 30th Yokozuna. He joined Izutsu stable and made a debut in January 1910. He was promoted to the top makuuchi division in January 1916. He was promoted to Ozeki in January 1922. After Onishiki Uichiro left the sumo w

Nishinoumi Kajiro I            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Nishinoumi Kajiro I: was a sumo wrestler from Sendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. He was the sport's 16th Yokozuna, and the first to be officially listed as such on the banzuke ranking sheets, an act which strengthened the prestige of yokozuna as the highest level of achieve

Nishiyama Soin            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Nishiyama Soin: was a haikai-no-renga poet of the early Tokugawa period. He founded the Danrin (which translates as 'talkative forest') school of haikai poetry, which aimed to move away from the serious 'bookishness' popular in Japanese poetry at the time and become more

Takeichi Nishi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Takeichi Nishi: was a Japanese Imperial Army officer, equestrian show jumper, and Olympic Gold Medalist at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics. He was a tank unit commander at the Battle of Iwo Jima and was killed in action during the defense of the island.

Natsuki Nishi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Natsuki Nishi: is a Japanese sprint canoer who competed in the mid 1990s. She was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-4 500 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.