Kuniyoshi

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| pronunciation = Kuniyoshi

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| region = Japanese

| origin = Japanese

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Kuniyoshi (written: 国吉 or 國吉) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Fumio Kuniyoshi (国吉 史生, born 1985), Japanese-German rapper
  • {{Nihongo|Takahiro Kuniyoshi|國吉 貴博||born 1988}}, Japanese footballer
  • {{Nihongo|Yasuo Kuniyoshi|国吉 康雄||1893–1953}}, American painter and photographer
  • {{Nihongo|Yuki Kuniyoshi|国吉 佑樹||born 1991}}, Japanese baseball player

Kuniyoshi (written: 邦嘉, 邦佳, 邦栄, 國義 or 國芳) is also a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:

  • {{Nihongo|Kuniyoshi Hironaka|弘中 邦佳||born 1976}}, Japanese mixed martial artist
  • {{Nihongo|Kuniyoshi Kaneko|金子 國義||1936–2015}}, Japanese painter, illustrator and photographer
  • {{Nihongo|Kuniyoshi Obara|小原 國芳||1887–1977}}, Japanese educational theorist and publisher
  • {{Nihongo|Kuniyoshi Sakai|酒井 邦嘉}}, Japanese scientist
  • {{Nihongo|Tamura Kuniyoshi|田村 邦栄||1852–1887}}, Japanese daimyō
  • {{Nihongo|Utagawa Kuniyoshi|歌川 國芳||1797–1861}}, Japanese artist in woodblock printing and painting
  • Prince Kuni Kuniyoshi (1873–1929), member of the Japanese imperial family and field marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army

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