Eiji

Eiji is a common masculine Japanese given name.

Written forms

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

• , "prosperity, peace"
• , "great, peace"
• , "great, second"
• , "eternity, next"

The name can also be written in hiragana () or katakana ().

In Japanese history the Eiji era (, "eternal peace"), from 1141 to 1142, follows the Hōen era and precedes the Kōji era.

People with the name

• , Japanese actor
• , Japanese former rugby union player
• , Japanese designer and video game director
• , Japanese television entertainer, former baseball player and YouTuber
• , Japanese professional wrestler
• , Japanese film actor
• , Japanese former football player
• , Japanese admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy
• , Japanese actor
• , Japanese photographer
• Eiji Hashimoto (1931–2021), Japanese harpsichordist, orchestra conductor and classical music professor
• , Japanese former football player
• , Japanese former rugby union player
• , Japanese businessman
• , Japanese shogi player
• , Japanese cartoonist, painter, illustrator, and haiga artist
• , Japanese photographer
• , Japanese former competitive figure skater
• , Japanese former Nippon Professional Baseball outfielder
• , Japanese actor and voice actor
• , Japanese football goalkeeper
• , Japanese politician
• , Japanese video game director
• , Japanese Chief of Staff of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force
• , Japanese jazz clarinetist and tenor saxophonist
• , Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball player and coach
• Eiji Kurita (born 1938), Japanese cross-country skier
• , Japanese former rugby union player and coach
• , Japanese former professional baseball pitcher
• , Japanese novelist
• , Japanese businessperson and rugby player
• , Japanese ice sledge hockey player
• , Japanese industrial designer
• , Japanese professional mixed martial artist
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese voice actor
• , Japanese professional golfer
• , Japanese former Nippon Professional Baseball infielder
• , Japanese mixed martial artist
• , Japanese boxer
• , Japanese stage actor and voice actor
• , Japanese film actor
• , Japanese manga artist and humorist
• , Japanese former Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher
• , Japanese historical sociologist, professor, documentary filmmaker and guitarist
• , Japanese film actor
• , Japanese actor and film director
• , Japanese former professor of computational chemistry
• , Japanese conductor
• , Japanese social critic, folklorist, media theorist, and novelist
• , Japanese businessman
• , Japanese former football player and manager
• , Japanese professional baseball player
• , Japanese soldier and a businessman
• , Japanese volleyball player
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese professional Nippon Professional Baseball player
• , Japanese animator, director and character designer
• , Japanese artist
• , Japanese voice actor
• , Japanese tennis player
• , Japanese former actor
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese chairman of Toyota Motor Corporation
• , Japanese special effects director
• , Japanese former football player and manager
• , Japanese ethicist, social educator, and writer
• Eiji Uematsu (born 1949), Japanese artist
• , Japanese light novel illustrator
• , Japanese singer and entertainer
• , Japanese voice actor
• , Japanese historical novelist
• Eiji Yoshikawa (boxer), Japanese boxer, coach, author, documentarian and peace educator

Fictional characters

• Eiji Asuma (), a character in the manga series Psychometrer Eiji
• Eiji Date (), a character in the manga and anime series Hajime no Ippo
• Eiji Hino (), a character in the television series Kamen Rider OOO
• Eiji Kamiya (), a character in the manga and anime series Wangan Midnight
• Eiji Kanda (), a character in the manga and anime series Antique Bakery
• Eiji Kashii (), a character in the light novel and anime series Juni Taisen: Zodiac War
• Eiji Kikumaru (), a character in the manga and anime series The Prince of Tennis
• Eiji Kisaragi (), a character in the video game series Art of Fighting and The King of Fighters
• Eiji Niizuma (), a character in the manga and anime series Bakuman
• Eiji Sawakita (), a character in the manga and anime series Slam Dunk
• Eiji Nochizawa (), a character in the anime film Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale
• Eiji Okumura (), a character in the manga and anime series Banana Fish
• Eiji Ōtori (), a character in the multimedia franchise Uta no Prince-sama
• Eiji Takaoka (), a character in the television series GoGo Sentai Boukenger
• Eiji Yagami (), a character in the game and anime series Little Battlers Experience