Shimizu
Shimizu may refer to:
People
- Shimizu (name) (清水, "clear" or "pure water"), a common Japanese surname
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
- Chistovodnoye, Sakhalin Oblast, former name Shimizu, see Karafuto
- Qingshui District, named Shimizu under Japanese rule, district of Taichung, Taiwan
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-Tokugawa, one of Gosankyō, or three branches of the Tokugawa clan in Japan along with Houses of Tayasu and Hitotsubashi during Edo period
Further 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
See also
- Clearwater and Clear River, the English equivalent
- Qingshui (disambiguation), the Chinese equivalent
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