Osamu

Osamu

Osamu Tezuka, a Japanese cartoonist, manga artist and animator
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Japanese
Meaning	It can have many different meanings depending on the kanji used.

Osamu (おさむ, オサム) is a masculine Japanese given name.

Possible writings

Osamu can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:

• 治 "reign"
• 修 "discipline"
• 理 "logic"
• 収 "obtain"
• 紀 "chronicle"
• 統 "rule"

The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

People with the name

• Osamu Abe (baseball) (安部 理, born 1962), Japanese baseball player and coach
• Osamu Abe (rower) (安部 収, born 1913), Japanese rower
• Osamu Adachi (理, born 1987), Japanese actor and a member of the acting group D-BOYS
• Osamu Akimoto (秋本 治, born 1952), Japanese manga artist
• Osamu Dazai (太宰 治, 1909–1948), Japanese author
• Osamu Dezaki (統, 1943-2011), Japanese anime director
• Osamu Fukutani (修, born 1967), Japanese film director
• Osamu Hayashi (林 修, born 1965), Japanese television personality
• Osamu Inoue (井上 治, born 1932), Japanese long-distance runner
• Osamu Jinguuji (治), drummer of the Japanese band Remioromen
• Osamu Mandai (万代 治, born 1942), Japanese rower
• Osamu Matsuda or El Samurai (納, born 1966), a Japanese professional wrestler
• Osamu Mukai (理, born 1982), Japanese actor
• Osamu Muramatsu (修), Japanese astronomer, and a prolific discoverer of asteroids
• Osamu Nagayama (born 1947), Japanese CEO of Chugai Pharmaceutical and Chairman of Sony Corporation
• Osamu Nakamura (中村 修, born 1962), Japanese shogi player
• Osamu Noguchi
• Osamu Ochiai (落合 治, born 1931), Japanese sport shooter
• Osamu Saito (斎藤 修, born 1938), Japanese rower
• Osamu Saka (阪 脩, born 1930), Japanese actor and voice actor
• Osamu Sato (理, born 1960), Japanese artist, photographer and composer
• Osamu Sato (boxer) (修, born 1976), Japanese boxer
• Osamu Shimomura (下村 脩, 1928–2018), Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist
• Osamu Shimomura (economist) (下村 治, 1910–1989), Japanese economist
• Osamu Shitara (設楽 統, born 1973), Japanese comedian and television presenter
• Osamu Sumida (住田 修, born 1969), Japanese cyclist
• Osamu Tada (多田 修, born 1935), Japanese alpine skier
• Osamu Tezuka (治虫, 1928–1989), Japanese manga artist often credited as the "Father of Manga"
• Osamu Tsurumine (鶴峯 治, 1941–2015), Japanese swimmer
• Osamu Ueno (上野 修, born 1983), Japanese freestyle skier
• Osamu Yamazaki (山崎 修, born 1964), Japanese freestyle skier

Fictional characters

• Osamu Kamiyama (治), a character in the anime series Kamisama Kazoku
• Osamu Kimizuka, a character in the shōnen-ai manga Loveless
• Osamu Mikumo (修), a character in the anime and manga World Trigger
• Osamu Miya (宮治), a character in the manga Haikyū!! with the position of wing spiker from Inarizaki High and the twin brother of Atsumu Miya
• Osamu Dazai (治), a character in the anime and manga Bungou Stray Dogs
• Osamu Kashiwagi (柏木 修), a character in the video game series Yakuza

See also

• 11930 Osamu, a main-belt asteroid
• "Osamu's Birthday", a 1967 song on The United States of America's album Hard Coming Love