Shiga

Shiga is

• a Japanese prefecture: Shiga Prefecture
• a Japanese county in this prefecture: Shiga-gun (Shiga)
• a Japanese village in this district: Shiga-mura (Shiga) ( 滋 賀 村 , incorporated in Ōtsu in 1932 )
• a small Japanese town in this county: Shiga (Shiga) ( 志 賀 町 , incorporated into Ōtsu in 2006)
• is the title of a Nō piece by Zeami Motokiyo : Shiga (Nō)

Shiga is a family name for the following people:

• Shiga Kiyoshi (1871–1957), Japanese bacteriologist and discoverer of the Shigella dysenteriae bacterium
• Shiga Mitsuko (1885–1976), Japanese writer
• Shiga Naoya (1883–1971), Japanese writer

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.