Shimizu
Shimizu (清水, "pure water") is a common Japanese surname
Shimizu may also refer to:
Places
- Shimizu, Fukui -chō, town, Fukui Prefecture
- Shimizu, Shizuoka -chō, town, Shizuoka Prefecture
- Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka, ward of the city of Shizuoka
- Shimizu, Wakayama -chō, town, Wakayama Prefecture
- Shimizu, Hokkaidō -chō, town, Hokkaidō
- Tosashimizu, Kōchi
- former name of Chistovodnoye, Sakhalin Oblast (see Karafuto)
- former name of Qingshui District, Taichung (see Taiwan under Japanese rule)
Other uses
- Shimizu S-Pulse, J. League soccer/football team based in Shizuoka
- Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid, a building envisioned for construction in Tokyo
- Shimizu Expansion Chamber, a variation of Wilson's cloud chamber
- Shimizu Corporation, one of the world's biggest architectural, engineering and general contracting firm, headquartered in Japan
- Shimizu House, one of Gosankyō, or three branches of the Tokugawa clan in Japan along with Houses of Tayasu and Hitotsubashi during Edo period
Additional reading
The characters 清水 may also be read Kiyomizu in Japanese. The proper name Kiyomizu may refer to:
- Buddhist temples
- Kiyomizu-Gojō Station, a Keihan Electric Railway Keihan Main Line railroad station in Kyoto