title: Yamashiro
text: # Yamashiro
  
  Yamashiro is a Japanese word with kanji often meaning mountain castle (山城). There are however other kanji spellings.
  
  * Yamashiro, Kyoto, former town in Japan
  * Yamashiro, Tokushima, former town in Japan
  * Yamashiro Province, former Japanese province
  * Japanese battleship Yamashiro, a battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy
  * Yamashiro Onsen, an onsen in Kaga, Ishikawa province
  * Yamashiro Park Taiyogaoka Stadium, an athletic stadium in Uji, Kyoto, Japan
  * Yamashiro Historic District, a villa, restaurant, and gardens in Los Angeles, California
  * Yamashiro, or yamajiro, category of Japanese castle in which the main structures are located on a mountain
  
  In addition to kanji variation, the word could also be read as Yamagusuku in the Ryukyu Islands.
  
  ## People
  
  Yamashiro is also a Japanese surname. In the Okinawan language, the kanji is read Yamagusuku. Notable people with the surname include:
  
  * Prince Yamashiro (d.643)
  * Danny Yamashiro (1967- )
  * Hiroshi Yamashiro (1958- )
  * Junya Yamashiro (1985- )
  * Rafael Yamashiro (1963- )
  * Shingo Yamashiro (1938–2009)
  * Shoji Yamashiro, pseudonym for Tsutomu Ōhashi
  * Stephen K. Yamashiro (1941–2011)
  * Mary Yamashiro Otani (1923–2005)
  * Augusto Miyashiro Yamashiro (1949- )
  
  ### Fictional characters
  
  * Aoba Yamashiro
  * Tatsu Yamashiro
  