Tsubaki

Tsubaki
Ethnicity	Japanese
Current region	Japan
Information
Name origin and meaning	Camellia

Tsubaki
Camellia japonica - 'Somersby'
Pronunciation	TSOO bah kee
Gender	Female
Language(s)	Japanese
Origin
Meaning	Camellia
Region of origin	Japan
Other names
Alternative spelling	つばき ツバキ
Related names	Akane Sumire Sakura
The name Tsubaki is occasionally bestowed on boys. [1]

Tsubaki (椿, Tsubaki^?) is Japanese for camellia, a flower. It is a common given name for Japanese women, and a Japanese surname.

Contents 1 Brands 2 Shrines 3 Real people 4 Fiction 4.1 Characters 5 See also 6 References

Brands

• Tsubaki (chain), a brand name of industrial drive chains, and other power transmission products manufactured by the Tsubakimoto Chain Co.
• Tsubaki (shampoo), a popular line of shampoo products manufactured by the Shiseido Company, Ltd.
• Tsubaki (band), a J-rock trio (ja:つばき)

Shrines

• Tsubaki Grand Shrine of America, the first Shinto shrine built in the mainland United States
• Tsubaki Grand Shrine, in Japan

Real people

Surname

• Enomoto Tsubaki, famous manga artist
• Ayana Tsubaki, a Japanese transsexual TV personality

Stage

• Tsubaki (singer), a J-pop artist
• Tsubaki Nekoi, member of the all-female manga-creating team Clamp

Fiction

• The Tsubaki-series are energy katanas wielded by Travis Touchdown in No More Heroes.
• One of Orihime Inoue's abilities in Bleach

Characters

Given name

• Tsubaki Domyoji, from Boys Over Flowers
• Tsubaki Kakyouin or "Tsubaki-hime", from Descendants of Darkness
• Tsubaki Miwa, from G Senjō no Maō
• Tsubaki Nakatsukasa, from Soul Eater
• Tsubaki Oribe, from Please Twins!
• Tsubaki Yayoi, from BlazBlue

Surname

• Tsubaki Sanjūrō, a film by Akira Kurosawa, and its title character played by Toshirō Mifune
• Tsubaki (Inuyasha), a character from InuYasha
• Tsubaki Issei, a character from Full Metal Panic
• Tsubaki Sadamitsu, the main character of Sadamitsu the Destroyer
• Tsubaki (MeiKing), a character from the hentai anime MeiKing (part of the Vanilla Series)
• Tsubaki, a loud, hairy, motorcycle-riding Go player ("Hairy Godzilla") in Hikaru no Go, who is taking the pro examinations for the last time before turning thirty and no longer qualifying.

See also

• Japanese name

References

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