Toshiko

Toshiko is a feminine Japanese given name.

Possible writings[]

• 敏子 "agile/clever, child"
• 俊子 "genius, child"
• 淑子 "graceful/polite, child"
• 寿子 "longevity, child"
• 年子 "year/age, child"
• 歳子 "age/time, child"
• 稔子

The name can also be written in hiragana (としこ) or katakana (トシコ).

People with the name[]

• Toshiko Abe (born 1959), Japanese politician
• Toshiko Akiyoshi (born 1929), Japanese musician (jazz pianist, composer, arranger, bandleader)
• Toshiko D'Elia (born 1930), American Masters athletics long distance runner
• Toshiko Ezaki, Japanese singer and songwriter
• Toshiko Fujita (born 1950, dead 2018), Japanese voice actress
• Toshiko Hamayotsu (born 1945), Japanese politician of the New Komeito Party
• Toshiko Haruoka (春岡 淑子, born 1959), Japanese swimmer
• Toshiko Hayashi (born 1940), Japanese communist politician
• Toshiko Higashikuni (1896-1978), aka Princess Yasu aka Princess Toshiko, 9th daughter of the Japanese Emperor Meiji
• , writer (poet)
• Nana Ozaki (born Toshiko Ishihara 1948), Japanese actress
• Toshiko Kishida (1863-1901), aka Toshiko Nakajima, Japanese feminist, writer (under the pen-name Shōen)
• , principal flutist in the U.S. National Symphony Orchestra
• Toshiko Koshijima (born 1980), singer and member of Capsule
• Toshiko Kowada (born 1949), athlete (table tennis world champion, 1969)
• Toshiko Miyamoto (宮本 敏子, born 1954), Japanese gymnast
• Toshiko Mori, Japanese-born American architect
• Toshiko Sawada (born 1936), Japanese voice actress
• Toshiko Shirasu-Aihara (born 1939), Japanese gymnast and 1964 Olympic medalist
• Toshiko Taira (平良 敏子, born 1921), Japanese textile artist
• Toshiko Takaezu (1922-2011), Japanese American ceramic artist
• Toshiko Tamura (1884–1945), Japanese novelist
• Toshiko Ueda (1917–2008), Japanese manga artist
• (born 1913), musician (koto), Living National Treasure

Fictional characters[]

• Toshiko Kasen, a character in the Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories video game
• Toshiko Sato, a protagonist in the television series Torchwood and briefly appeared in Doctor Who

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