Usui (surname)
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Usui is a Japanese surname. It is written or , depending on the particular family. People named Usui include:
- Usui KaoruKaoru UsuiUsui was born in Nagoya on 12 December 1916; the actor Shigeru Amachi was a younger brother. He started photography around 1933 — when he bought a Rokuoh-sha Pearlette — and from 1934 subscribed to Photo Times, whose regular contributor Sakae Tamura inspired and influenced him.From...
, b. 1916, photographer - Usui MikaoUsui MikaoMikao Usui was the founder of a form of spiritual practice known as Reiki, used as a complementary therapy for the treatment of physical, emotional, and mental diseases. According to the inscription on his memorial stone, Usui taught Reiki to over 2000 people during his lifetime...
, 1865–1926, religious teacher, founder of ReikiReikiis a spiritual practice developed in 1922 by Japanese Buddhist Mikao Usui. The teaching was continued and adapted by various teachers. It uses a technique commonly called palm healing as a form of complementary and alternative medicine and is sometimes classified as oriental medicine by some... - Usui SadamitsuUsui Sadamitsu' was a warrior of the mid-Heian period. His official name was '.According to Otogizōshi stories compiled several centuries later, Sadamitsu was a retainer of the Japanese legendary hero Minamoto no Raikō. Sadamitsu is known as one of The Four Guardian Kings under Raikō. Alternatively, in Konjaku...
, warrior - Usui Yoshimi, 1905–87, author and critic
- Usui YoshitoYoshito Usui, born in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, was a manga artist known for the popular manga Crayon Shin-chan. He and his wife raised two daughters; both had moved out of the house at the time of Usui's death.-Biography:...
, 1958–2009, manga artist