Hirabayashi

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 平林 (Hirabayashi).

Proper noun

Hirabayashi (plural Hirabayashis)

  1. A surname from Japanese.
    • 1983, Peter Irons, Justice at War: The Story of the Japanese-American Internment Cases, University of California Press, published 1993, pages 87–88:
      On the morning of May 16, 1942, Gordon Kiyoshi Hirabayashi arrived at the FBI office in Seattle, accompanied by a local lawyer, Arthur Barnett.

Japanese

Romanization

Hirabayashi

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ひらばやし