Shirakawa

Shirakawa (白川 or 白河^?) may refer to:

Japanese names

Posthumous name of emperor

• Emperor Shirakawa, an eleventh-century emperor of Japan

Surnames

• Atsushi Shirakawa, a Japanese music composer
• Hideki Shirakawa, Dr., a Japanese chemist
• Kazuko Shirakawa, a Japanese actress
• Masaaki Shirakawa, the 30th (and current) governor of the Bank of Japan
• Yoshikazu Shirakawa, a Japanese photographer
• Yoshinori Shirakawa, a Japanese samurai and general in the Imperial Japanese Army
• Yukina Shirakawa, a Japanese gravure idol

Japanese toponyms

• Shirakawa, Fukushima, a city in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan
  • Shirakawa Domain, a feudal domain of Edo-period Japan
• Shirakawa, Gifu (town), a town in Gifu Prefecture, Japan
• Shirakawa, Gifu (village), a World Heritage site in Gifu Prefecture, Japan
• Shirakawa, a neighborhood of Koto, Tokyo
• Shirakawa, Miyagi, a town in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
• Shirakawa, Saitama, a town in Saitama Prefecture, Japan
• Shirakawa River, a river in Kyoto