Hajime

Hajime (はじめ) is the Japanese word meaning "beginning" (初め, 始め). In the Japanese traditional martial arts such as karate, judo, aikido and kendo, it is a verbal command to "begin". Hajime is also a common Japanese given name for males, although it is occasionally used as a surname.

Possible writings

Hajime can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:

• 始め, "beginning" or "start"
• 初め, "beginning" or "first"

as a given name

• 一, "first"
• 元, "beginning" or "origin"
• 始, "beginning" or "start"
• 肇, "beginning"
• 基, "fundamental"
• 創, "genesis"
• 孟, "beginning" or "chief"
• 朔, "first day of month"
• 甫, "beginning" or "great"

The name can also be written in hiragana as はじめ and katakana as ハジメ

People

Given name

• Hajime Fukuma (創; born 1970), Japanese electronic musician
• Hajime Funada (元; born 1953), Japanese politician
• Hajime Hana (肇; 1930–1993), Japanese musician, actor and comedian
• Hajime Iijima (肇), Japanese voice actor
• Hajime Isayama, Japanese manga artist; creator of popular manga "Attack on Titan."
• Hajime Ishii (一; born 1934), Japanese politician
• Hajime Hirota (一; born 1968), Japanese politician
• Hajime Hosogai (萌; born 1986), Japanese football player
• Hajime Hosokawa (一; 1901–1970), first doctor to discover the Minamata disease
• Hajime Kanzaka (一; born 1964), Japanese novelist and manga story writer
• Hajime Katoki (ハジメ; born 1963), Japanese mecha (fictional walking robots) designer
• Hajime Kawakami (肇; 1879–1946), Japanese Marxist economist
• Hajime Kazumi (肇; born 1971), Japanese karateka
• Hajime Matsumoto (哉; born 1974), Japanese activist, and a recycle shop owner
• Hajime Meshiai (肇; born 1954), Japanese golfer
• Hajime Mizoguchi (肇; born 1960), Japanese cellist and composer
• Hajime Moriyasu (一; born 1968), Japanese football player
• Hajime Nakamura (元; 1911–1999), Japanese academic of Vedic, Hindu and Buddhist scriptures
• Hajime Okayasu (肇; born 1936), Japanese anime and film editor and director
• Hajime Satomi (治; born 1942), founder of Sammy Corporation
• Hajime Sawatari (朔; born 1940), Japanese photographer
• Hajime Sorayama (基; born 1947), Japanese illustrator
• Hajime Sugiyama (元; 1880–1945), minister of war in the Imperial Japanese Army
• Hajime Takano (孟; born 1944), Japanese journalist
• Hajime Tanabe (元; 1889–1962), Japanese philosopher
• Hajime Ueda (ハジメ), Japanese manga artist
• Hajime Watanabe (animator) (はじめ; born 1957), Japanese animator and character designer
• Hajime Yasunaga (一; 1901–1994), Japanese amateur Go player
• Hidenokuni Hajime (一; born 1971), Japanese sumo wrestler
• Saitō Hajime (一, 1844–1915), samurai who served in the Shinsengumi
• Watanabe Hajime (samurai), Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period

Surname

• Chitose Hajime (元; born 1979), Japanese singer

Characters

• Hajime Aikawa (始), a character from the Japanese live-action television series Kamen Rider Blade
• Hajime Aoyama (ハジメ), a character from the anime series Ghost Stories
• Hajime Kunihiro (一), a female character from the anime/manga series Saki
• Hajime Saitō (一), a character from the anime/manga series Rurouni Kenshin
• Hajime Hinata (創), the protagonist of the visual novel Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
• Hajime Ichinose (はじめ), the protagonist of Gatchaman Crowds
• Hajime Yagi (はじめ), a character from the anime/manga series The World of Narue
• Hajime Kindaichi (一), a character from the anime/manga series Kindaichi Case Files
• Hajime Mutsuki (一), a character from the anime series Tsukiuta. The Animation and also a charismatic idol from Tsukino Production. Leader of the group "Six Gravity" consisting of six members including himself.
• Hajime Tenga (一), one of the main characters from the anime series Kiznaiver
• Hajime Iwaizumi (岩泉), a character from the anime series Haikyuu!!

Other uses

• Hajime Yatate (肇), a pseudonym for the collective contributions of the Sunrise animation staff

See also

• Hajime no Ippo, the Japanese title of the manga series Fighting Spirit