Mori
Encyclopedia
Mori is a Japanese
and Italian
surname. In Japanese, Mori may also be a given name
. It is also the name of two clans in Japan, and one in India.
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
and Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
surname. In Japanese, Mori may also be a given name
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...
. It is also the name of two clans in Japan, and one in India.
Italian persons named Mori
- Cesare MoriCesare MoriCesare Mori was a prefect before and during the Fascist period in Italy. He is known in Italy as the Iron Prefect because of his iron-fisted campaigns against the Mafia on Sicily in the second half of the 1920s.- Early years :Mori was born in Pavia and grew up in an orphananage and was only...
, Italian "Iron Prefect" - Claudia MoriClaudia MoriClaudia Mori , is an Italian actress, singer, television producer, and wife of the singer Adriano Celentano.-1960s:...
, Italian actress, singer, television producer - Fabrizio MoriFabrizio MoriFabrizio Mori is an Italian hurdler, best known for his gold medal at the 1999 World Championships. His personal best over 400 metres hurdles, which is also an Italian record, is 47.54 seconds, achieved at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton.-Achievements:-External links:...
, Italian hurdler - Massimiliano MoriMassimiliano MoriMassimiliano Mori is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer. Massimiliano Mori is the son of former professional cyclist Primo Mori....
, Italian former professional road bicycle racer. - Nicolas MoriNicolas MoriNicolas Mori was an Anglo-Italian violinist, music publisher and conductor. Once regarded as the finest violinist in Europe, Mori was somewhat overshadowed by the rise of Paganini....
, Anglo-Italian violinist - Primo MoriPrimo MoriPrimo Mori was an Italian professional road bicycle racer.- Palmarès :1969- External links :*...
, Italian professional road bicycle racer. - Simone MoriSimone MoriSimone Mori is an Italian former professional racing cyclist and formerly riding for Telekom Malaysia Cycling Team.-External links:...
, Italian former professional racing cyclist
Japanese persons named Mori
There are two names, Mori 森, moɽi and Mōri 毛利, moːɽi.- Mori ArinoriMori ArinoriViscount was a Meiji period Japanese statesman, diplomat and founder of Japan's modern educational system.-Early life:Mori was born in the Satsuma domain from a samurai family, and educated in the Kaisenjo School for Western Learning run by the Satsuma domain...
, Japanese statesman - Mori ChackMori ChackMori Chack is the artist name of a Japanese graphic designer, who was born in Sakai, Osaka, Japan. He is famous for his Chax product line, and especially the character Gloomy Bear, a 2 m tall, violent, pink bear that eats humans...
, graphics designer - Mōri MotonariMori Motonariwas a prominent daimyō in the west Chūgoku region of Japan during the Sengoku period of the 16th century.-Early years:Mōri Motonari was born under the name Shojumaru in a small domain of Aki province in 1497. He is said to have been born at Suzuo Castle, his mother's homeland...
, daimyo - Mori ŌgaiMori Ogaiwas a Japanese physician, translator, novelist and poet. is considered his major work.- Early life :Mori was born as Mori Rintarō in Tsuwano, Iwami province . His family were hereditary physicians to the daimyō of the Tsuwano Domain...
, novelist and physician - Mori SosenMori Sosenwas a Japanese painter of the Shijō school during the Edo period.Mori Sosen is famous for his many paintings depicting monkeys and other animals. Robert van Gulik called him "an undisputed master" of the painting of the Japanese macaque...
, Japanese painter - Mori MariMori Mariwas a Japanese author and daughter of famed novelist Mori Ōgai. Born in Hongō, Tokyo, she began a movement of writing about male homosexual passion in 1961 with A Lovers' Forest, , and later I Don't Go on Sundays and The Bed of Dead Leaves...
, novelist (Ōgai's daughter) - Mori RanmaruMori Ranmaru, born Mori Nagasada , was the son of Mori Yoshinari, and had 5 brothers in total, from the province of Mino. He was a member of the Mori Clan, descendants of the Seiwa Genji....
, samurai during the Sengoku period - Akio MoriAkio Moriis a Japanese physiologist, sports scientist and writer. He is also the founder and the former head of the Japanese learned society, .Mori was originally known for his physiology researches, but began to write books about human neuroscience, coining the term "game brain" on his 2002 book . He...
, physiologist and writer - Bárbara MoriBárbara MoriBárbara Mori Ochoa is a Mexican actress and model. She became famous for being the female lead in the Bollywood film, Kites....
, Mexican actress (Japanese paternal grandfather) - Hanae MoriHanae MoriHanae Mori is a fashion designer in Japan. She is the only Japanese woman to have presented her collections on the runways of Paris and New York, and the first Asian woman to be admitted as an official haute couture design house by the fédération française de la couture in France...
, fashion designer - Hiroshi MoriHiroshi Mori (writer)is a Japanese writer and engineer. He is famous for writing mystery novels – particularly his debut work The Perfect Insider, which won him the first Mephist Award in 1996 – but he considers himself to be a researcher as well as craftsman....
, writer and engineer. - Ikue MoriIkue Mori, also known as Ikue Ile, is a drummer, composer, and graphic designer.-Biography:Ikue Mori was born and raised in Japan. She says she had little interest in music before hearing punk rock...
, musician - Izumi Mori, fashion model
- Junko MoriJunko Moriis a Japanese silversmith and a modernist metalwork sculptor. She was born in Yokohama, Japan in 1974. She graduated in from Musashino Art University in Tokyo in 1997 with her first BA in three-dimensional design. She then worked as a welder in a factory for one year...
, metalwork sculptor - Kaori MoriKaori Moriis a female badminton player from Japan.Mori played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics, defeating Anu Weckström of Finland in the first round but losing to Zhou Mi of China in the round of 16.-Link:*...
, badminton player - Kaoru MoriKaoru Moriis a Japanese manga artist from Tokyo. She is the creator of popular manga such as Shirley and Emma. Many of her works are set in Britain, centering on characters who are maids...
, manga author - Kumiko Mori, opera singer
- Manny MoriManny MoriEmanuel "Manny" Mori is the current President of the Federated States of Micronesia. He was elected by the nation's Congress on May 11, 2007 and sworn in the same day....
, current President of the Federated States of Micronesia (has Japanese ancestry) - Mariko MoriMariko MoriMariko Mori is a Japanese video and photographic artist. While studying at Bunka Fashion College, she worked as a fashion model in the late 1980s. This strongly influenced her early works, such as Play with Me, in which she takes control of her role in the image, becoming an exotic, alien...
, artist - Masahiro MoriMasahiro Moriis a Japanese roboticist noted for his pioneering work on the emotional response of humans to non-human entities, as well as for his views on religion and robots. The ASIMO robot was designed by one of Masahiro's students....
, roboticist - Minoru MoriMinoru Moriis considered to be Japan's most powerful and influential building tycoon. He joined his father, Taikichiro's, real estate business after graduating from Tokyo University and is now president and CEO of Mori Building, of which he and his older brother Kei's families own 100%...
, building tycoon - Mitsuko MoriMitsuko Mori, real name , is a Japanese actress. In May 2009, she became the first actor in Japan to have performed 2,000 times. She was born in Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.On May 11, 2009, Takeo Kawamura announced that Mori would be awarded the People's Honour Award....
, actress - Naoko MoriNaoko Moriis a British-Japanese actress known for roles as Sarah, Saffron's "odd" friend in Absolutely Fabulous, Mie Nishikawa in Casualty, and Toshiko Sato in Doctor Who and Torchwood.-Early life:...
, actress - Okamoto Mori, actor
- Riyo MoriRiyo Moriis a Japanese dance instructor and model who won the Miss Universe 2007 title in May 2007.-Early life:...
, Miss Universe 2007 - Shigefumi MoriShigefumi Mori-References:*Heisuke Hironaka, Fields Medallists Lectures, Michael F. Atiyah , Daniel Iagolnitzer ; World Scientific Publishing, 2007. ISBN 9810231172...
, mathematician - Shigeki MoriShigeki Moriwas a Japanese businessman and politician, mayor of Neagari, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, father of a former Japanese prime minister Yoshirō Mori.He was the initiator of the Monument of Friendship between Russia and Japan in Irkutsk, Russia...
, mayor of Neagari - Shigekazu Mori, baseball player
- Shinichi MoriShinichi Moriis a Japanese male enka singer and composer, who also sings folk and pop music. Nishinippon Shimbun claims that his total sales of gramophone records and CDs has been over 90 million copies....
, enka singer - Shinji MoriShinji MoriShinji Mori is a right-handed pitcher.From -, he played for the Seibu Lions in Nippon Professional Baseball. After the 2005 season, he was acquired by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays through the posting system....
, baseball player - Takaji MoriTakaji Moriis a Japanese former football player and manager. Mori played for Japan at the 1968 Summer Olympics.-Awards:* Japan Soccer League Best Eleven: ' 1969, 1970, 1973, 1974, 1975-References:...
, football player - Takeshi Mori (commander)Takeshi Mori (commander)- Notes :...
(1894–1945), commander of the Japanese Empire's First Imperial Guards Division, at the end of World War II - Takeshi Mori (director)Takeshi Mori (director)is a Japanese anime director, storyboard artist, and script writer born October 10, 1963 in Tokyo, Japan. After graduating from Waseda University, Mori began working in the anime industry....
(b. 1963), anime director, storyboard artist, and script writer - Takeshi Mori (announcer)Takeshi Mori (announcer)is a Japanese television announcer born on 2 December 1959 in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan. He won the 1987 Silver Award from the Shingo-Ryūkōgo Taishō for creating the buzzword neologism in response to the losing streak of the Hanshin Tigers during that time period.-References:...
(b. 1959), announcer on Yomiuri TV in Japan - Tatsuya MoriTatsuya Moriis a Japanese documentary filmmaker, TV director and author.-Career:Born in Hiroshima Prefecture, Mori graduated from Rikkyo University, where he appeared in the student films of Kiyoshi Kurosawa. After graduating, he tried acting and even appeared in Kurosawa's feature debut, the pink film...
, film director - Toshia MoriToshia MoriToshia Mori was a Japanese born actress, who had a brief career in American films during the 1930s. Born as Toshia Ichioka in Kyoto, Mori moved to the United States when she was ten years old....
, actress - Yoshirō MoriYoshiro Moriis a Japanese politician who served as the 85th and 86th Prime Minister of Japan starting at 5 April 2000 ending 26 April 2001. Described as having "the heart of a flea and the brain of a shark," he was an unpopular prime minister mainly remembered today for his many gaffes and situationally...
, former Prime Minister of Japan - Yukinojo Mori, poet
Other people named Mori
- MóriMORIIpsos MORI is the second largest market research organisation in the United Kingdom, formed by a merger of Ipsos UK and MORI, two of the Britain's leading survey companies in October 2005...
, Icelandic rapper - Camilo MoriCamilo MoriCamilo Mori Serrano was a painter and a founder of the Grupo Montparnasse....
, Chilean painter - Damian MoriDamian MoriDamian Mori is an Australian football player who is the top scorer for the Socceroos...
, Italian-Australian football player - Michael MoriMichael MoriMichael Dante Mori is a lieutenant colonel in the United States Marine Corps. Mori was the military lawyer for Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks.-History:...
, U.S. military lawyer - J. Mori Johnson, U.S. medical association director
- Rogelio Funes MoriRogelio Funes MoriRogelio Gabriel Funes Mori is an Argentine football forward. He plays for River Plate. He is the twin brother of Ramiro Funes Mori.- Early life :...
, Argentine football player
Fictional Moris
- Ai Mori in The Law of Ueki
- Kogoro Mori (Richard Moore), character in Detective Conan/Case ClosedCase ClosedCase Closed, known as in Japan, is a Japanese detective manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama. The series is serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday since February 2, 1994, and has been collected in 73 tankōbon volumes as of September 2011...
- Takashi "Mori" Morinozuka, character in Ouran High School Host Club
- Ran Mori (Rachel Moore), character in Detective Conan/Case Closed
- Shin Mōri (Cye Mouri), character in Yoroiden Samurai Troopers/Ronin WarriorsRonin WarriorsRonin Warriors, known in Japan as , is a Japanese anime series and manga adaptation created by Hajime Yatate. The anime was produced and animated by Sunrise, and aired across Japan on Nagoya Television from April 30, 1988 to March 4, 1989 and has a total of 39 episodes.Ronin Warriors was produced...
- Yorick Mori, character in the online multiplayer game League of LegendsLeague of LegendsThe BetFred League of Legends was a darts tournament featuring some of the legends of the game of darts which commenced in May 2008. The tournament is broadcast on Setanta Sports in the United Kingdom....
Mori in foreign languages
is a Japanese word for forestForest
A forest, also referred to as a wood or the woods, is an area with a high density of trees. As with cities, depending where you are in the world, what is considered a forest may vary significantly in size and have various classification according to how and what of the forest is composed...
- In Latin, mori means deathDeathDeath is the permanent termination of the biological functions that sustain a living organism. Phenomena which commonly bring about death include old age, predation, malnutrition, disease, and accidents or trauma resulting in terminal injury....
. In modern Italian, mori may also derive from Latin maurus that means "dark skinned".- Memento moriMemento moriMemento mori is a Latin phrase translated as "Remember your mortality", "Remember you must die" or "Remember you will die". It names a genre of artistic work which varies widely, but which all share the same purpose: to remind people of their own mortality...
, artistic creations to remind people of their own mortality, Latin for "Remember that you are mortal," "Remember you will die," or "Remember your death"
- Memento mori
- moriMoriMori is a Japanese and Italian surname. In Japanese, Mori may also be a given name. It is also the name of two clans in Japan, and one in India.-Italian persons named Mori:*Cesare Mori, Italian "Iron Prefect"...
, is a horse in mongolian, the last i vowel is not pronounced.
Groups
- Mori (clan)Mori (clan)The Mori clan is one of 36 royal Rajput clans of India and falls in 24 eka clans which are not divided further. Mori Rajputs claim they are the descendants of the Maurya emperors, although this is not widely believed. Mori Rajputs are sub clan of the Parmara Rajputs of Agnivansh...
, a Rajput clan of India - MORIMORIIpsos MORI is the second largest market research organisation in the United Kingdom, formed by a merger of Ipsos UK and MORI, two of the Britain's leading survey companies in October 2005...
, a research organisation based in the United Kingdom - Mori clan (Genji)Mori clan (Genji)The was a family of Japanese people descended from the Seiwa Genji. Their line descended from Minamoto no Yoshiie through his seventh son, Minamoto no Yoshitaka, proprietor of Mori-no-shō in Sagami Province...
, descendants of Genji in Japan - Mōri clanMori clanThe Mōri clan was a family of daimyō, descended from Ōe no Hiromoto and established themselves in Aki Province. Their name was derived from a shōen in Mōri, Aikō District, Sagami Province. The generation of Hiromoto began to name themselves Mōri.After the Jōkyū War, Mōri was appointed to the jitō...
, a family of daimyō from Aki Province in Japan
Places
- Mori, Agra, a village in Uttar Pradesh, India
- Mori, a town in Trentino, Italy
- Mori, ShizuokaMori, Shizuokais a town located in Shūchi District, Shizuoka, Japan. As of February 2010, the town had an estimated population of 19,650 and a density of 147 persons per km². The total area was 133.84 km².-Geography:...
, a town in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan - Mori, HokkaidōMori, Hokkaidois a town located in Kayabe District, Oshima, Hokkaidō, Japan. The total area of the town is .-Demographics:On March 31, 2009 the town had a population of 18,433 and a population density of 50.1 persons per km²....
, a town in Hokkaidō, Japan - Mori Kazakh Autonomous County, county in Xinjiang, China
See also
- Moori (disambiguation)
- Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand