Midori

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Midori has several meanings:

It is the Japanese word for the color "green" (緑).

It is used for the name of ward (南区) in several cities:

• Midori-ku, Chiba
• Midori-ku, Nagoya
• Midori-ku, Saitama
• Midori-ku, Yokohama

And, there is a city, "Midori-shi" (みどり市) in Japan:

• Midori, Gunma, a city of Gunma Prefecture

It is also a common Japanese female personal name.

It is the name of several people:

• Midori Goto (五嶋 みどり Gotō Midori) (born 1971), Japanese violinist
• Midori Ito (伊藤 みどり Itō Midori) (born 1969), former Japanese figure skater
• Midori (author) (美登里)
• Midori Hirose (born 1973), contemporary sculpture and installation artist
• Midori Snyder, fantasy author
• Midori (porn star)

It is also the name of:

• Midori Days (美鳥の日々), an anime series, and its title character Midori Kasugano
• Midori Sugiura, a character in the anime and manga series My-HiME and My-Otome
• Midori (band), A Japanese jazz-punk fusion band formed in 2003
• Midori (1992 film), an anime directed by Hiroshi Harada
• Midori (1996 film), a film directed by Ryuichi Hiroki
• Midori liqueur, a bright green, melon-flavoured liqueur made by Suntory and manufactured in Mexico
• Midori (browser), a WebKit based web browser
• The name of a character in the video game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
• Midori Saito, the main character in the novel Midori by Moonlight, by Wendy Nelson Tokunaga