Yayoi

Written forms

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

弥生, third month, "March" in modern calendar, "April" in traditional calendar

as a given name

彌生, "extensive, life"

The given name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

People with the name

Yayoi Jinguji (弥生; 1965–2017), Japanese voice actress

Yayoi Kano (加納 弥生; 1963–2019), Japanese artistic gymnast

Yayoi Kitazume (北爪 やよひ; born 1945), Japanese composer

Yayoi Kobayashi (小林 弥生; born 1981), Japanese women's footballer

Yayoi Kusama (彌生 or 弥生; born 1929), Japanese artist

Yayoi Matsumoto (弥生; born 1990), Japanese swimmer

Yayoi Nagaoka (長岡 弥生; born 1974), Japanese speed skater

Yayoi Watanabe (やよい; born 1952), Japanese actress

Yayoi Yoshioka (彌生; 1871–1959), Japanese physician and women's rights activist

Fictional characters

Yayoi Akikawa, a character from the video game Umamusume: Pretty Derby

Yayoi Kise, aka Cure Peace from the shoujo anime Smile PreCure!

Yayoi, the main heroine of the manga series Mugen Spiral

Yayoi Tsubaki, a character in the fighting game series BlazBlue

Yayoi Fujisawa (やよい), a character in the anime series Stellvia of the Universe

Yayoi Inuzuka (弥生), a character in the light novel, manga, and anime series Kure-nai

Yayoi Matsunaga (弥生), a character in the anime series Nightwalker: The Midnight Detective

Yayoi (弥生) Yukino (雪野), the main character in the anime series Queen Millennia

Yayoi Kamishiro, a main character and possible love interest in the video game Lux-Pain

Yayoi (弥生), the landlady and "mother" of Hiroe Ogawa in the hentai anime and manga F3: Frantic, Frustrated & Female

Yayoi Aoba, a character of the manga and anime series Captain Tsubasa

Yayoi Shinozuka, a character of the visual novel series White Album

Yayoi Shioiri, a character in the manga Loveless

Yayoi Takatsuki, a character in the video games series THE iDOLM@STER