Niwa

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Niwa or NIWA can refer to:

People

• Niwa clan - retainer clan of the Oda clan during the Sengoku period of Japan (1603 – 1868)
  • Niwa Nagaaki, Daimyō of Nihonmatsu, 1796 – 1813
  • Niwa Nagahide, Daimyō of Shirakawa
  • Niwa Nagahiro, Daimyō of Nihonmatsu, 1868 – 1871
  • Niwa Nagakuni, Daimyō of Nihonmatsu, 1858 – 1868
  • Niwa Nagashige, Daimyō of Shirakawa, 1628 – 1638
  • Niwa Nagatomi, Daimyō of Nihonmatsu, 1813 – 1858
• Daiki Niwa (footballer), Japanese footballer
• Hideki Niwa, Japanese politician
• Koki Niwa, Japanese table tennis player
• Mikiho Niwa, Japanese actress
• Ryuhei Niwa, Japanese footballer
• Uichiro Niwa, Japanese diplomat and businessman
• Yasujiro Niwa, Japanese scientist
• Yuya Niwa, Japanese politician

Fictional characters

• Daisuke Niwa, Emiko Niwa, Kosuke Niwa and Daiki Niwa, phantom thieves in manga series D.N.Angel

Places

In China

• Niwa Station, Beijing Subway

In Japan

• Niwa District, Aichi, a district in Japan

In Poland

• Niwa, Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)
• Niwa, Łódź Voivodeship (central Poland)
• Niwa, Puławy County in Lublin Voivodeship (east Poland)
• Niwa, Zamość County in Lublin Voivodeship (east Poland)
• Niwa, Lubaczów County in Subcarpathian Voivodeship (south-east Poland)
• Niwa, Tarnobrzeg County in Subcarpathian Voivodeship (south-east Poland)
• Niwa, Masovian Voivodeship (east-central Poland)
• Niwa, Opole Voivodeship (south-west Poland)

Many villages in Poland have names starting with Niwa, which means "field" in Polish.

Literature and the arts

• Niwa (Osamu Dazai book), a book by Osamu Dazai
• Niwa (Ryūnosuke Akutagawa book), a book by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
• Yaho-Niwa, 2011 album by Merzbow

Organisations

• National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research of New Zealand