title: Yawara (disambiguation)
text: # Yawara (disambiguation)
  
  The yawara is a Japanese weapon used in various martial arts.
  
  Yawara may also refer to:
  
  * Yawara, an obsolete term for jujutsu (based on an alternate pronunciation of the 柔 kanji)
  * Yawara!, a manga series, as well as the anime and live-action series based on the manga
  * "Yawara-chan", the nickname of Ryoko Tani, after the main character in the Yawara! manga
  * Yawara, Ibaraki, a village in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
  
  ## People with the given name
  
  * Yawara Hata (畑 和, 1910–1996), Japanese politician
  