Hajime

Template:Template other is the Japanese word meaning . In Japanese traditional martial arts such as karate, judo, aikido, Kūdō and kendo, it is a verbal command to "begin". Hajime is also a common Japanese given name for males.

In the Amami Islands, Hajime (元) is a surname.

Written forms

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

• 始め, "beginning" or "start"
• 初め, "beginning" or "first"

as a given name

• 一, "first"
• 元, "beginning" or "origin"
• 始, "beginning" or "start"
• 肇, "beginning"
• 基, "fundamental"
• 創, "genesis"
• 孟, "beginning" or "chief"
• 甫, "beginning" or "great"

The name can also be written in hiragana as はじめ and katakana as ハジメ.

People

Given name

• , Japanese politician
• , Japanese musician, actor and comedian
• , Japanese sumo wrestler
• , Japanese politician
• , Japanese football player
• , first doctor to discover the Minamata disease
• , Japanese voice actor
• , Japanese manga artist; creator of manga Attack on Titan
• , Japanese Vice-Admiral
• , Japanese politician
• , Japanese footballer and manager
• , Japanese rower
• , Japanese table tennis player
• , Japanese novelist and manga story writer
• , Japanese mecha (fictional walking robots) designer
• , Japanese Marxist economist
• , Japanese karateka
• , Japanese activist, and a recycle shop owner
• , Japanese golfer
• , Japanese cellist and composer
• , Japanese football player
• , Japanese academic of Vedic, Hindu and Buddhist scriptures
• , Japanese anime and film editor and director
• , samurai who served in the Shinsengumi
• , founder of Sammy Corporation
• , Japanese photographer
• , Japanese politician
• , Japanese illustrator
• , minister of war in the Imperial Japanese Army
• , Japanese writer
• , Japanese journalist
• , Japanese politician
• , Japanese philosopher
• , Japanese professional fighting game player
• , Japanese alpine skier
• , Japanese manga artist
• , Japanese animator and character designer
• Watanabe Hajime (samurai), Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period
• , Japanese sport shooter
• , Japanese amateur Go player
• , Japanese politician

Surname

• Chitose Hajime (元; born 1979), Japanese singer

Characters

• Hajime Aikawa (始), a character from the Japanese live-action television series Kamen Rider Blade
• , a character from the anime series You and Idol Pretty Cure
• Hajime Aoyagi (一), a character from the anime/manga series Yowamushi Pedal
• Hajime Aoyama (ハジメ), a character from the anime series Ghost Stories
• Hajime Fukuroda, a character from Japanese live-action television series Great Teacher Onizuka (2012)
• , the protagonist of the visual novel Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
• Hajime Ichinose (はじめ), the protagonist of Gatchaman Crowds
• , a character from the anime series Haikyuu!! with the position of vice captain and wing spiker from Aoba Johsai High
• Hajime Katsura (はじめ), a character from the anime/manga series Digimon Universe: App Monsters
• Hajime Kindaichi (一), a character from the anime/manga series Kindaichi Case Files
• Hajime Kunihiro (一), a female character from the anime/manga series Saki
• Hajime Makunouchi, a character from the Danganronpa fangame, Super Danganronpa Another 2
• , the protagonist in the anime and manga series Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest
• , a character from the anime series Dagashi Kashi
• , a character from the game franchise Ensemble Stars!
• Hajime Tanaka (田中 一), a character in the Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan rhythm video game duology
• Hajime Tenga (一), one of the main characters from the anime series Kiznaiver
• Hajime Tsukishima (基), a character from the anime/manga series Golden Kamuy
• Hajime Yagi (はじめ), a character from the anime/manga series The World of Narue
• Hajime Yamaoka, a character from Ultraman Nexus who were killed and resurrected by Dark Zagi using the alias Mitsuhiko Ishibori
• , a character from the anime series Tsukiuta. The Animation
• , a character from the anime/manga series Rurouni Kenshin
• Hajime Kashimo (鹿紫雲一), a character from the manga series Jujutsu Kaisen

Other uses

• Hajime Yatate (肇), a pseudonym for the collective contributions of the Sunrise animation staff
• Hajime (malware)

See also

• Hajime no Ippo, the Japanese title of the manga series Fighting Spirit