Shirakawa

Shirakawa means:

• Shirakawa (Fukushima) , a city in the Japanese prefecture of Fukushima
• Shirakawa (Han) , a fiefdom based in Shirakawa (Fukushima)
  • Shirakawa-ken (spelling: 白河 県 ), a former prefecture in northern Japan, successor to Shirakawa-han
• Shirakawa-ken (spelling: 白 川 県 ), a former prefecture in southern Japan, see Kumamoto Prefecture
• Shirakawa-chō (Gifu) , a city in Gifu Prefecture
• Shirakawa-mura (Gifu) , a village in Gifu Prefecture
• a historical Japanese district including this village with the World Heritage Site of the Historical Villages of Shirakawa-gō and Gokayama
• a district in the province of Iwaki (formerly Mutsu) in the spelling 白 川 郡 , from 1878 Higashishirakawa-gun (Fukushima)
• a district in the province of Iwaki (formerly Mutsu) in the spelling 白河 郡 , from 1878 Nishishirakawa-gun (Fukushima)
• (6198) Shirakawa , an asteroid of the main belt

Shirakawa is a family name for the following people:

• Shirakawa (Tennō) (1053-1129), the 72nd Tennō of Japan
• Hideki Shirakawa (* 1936), Japanese chemist and Nobel Prize winner
• Masaaki Shirakawa (* 1949), Japanese economist and the 30th Governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ)
• Yoshikazu Shirakawa (* 1935), Japanese photographer
• Shirakawa Yoshinori (1869–1932), Japanese general and politician

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