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Midori

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ3857076
Source-derived summary

Midori (みどり, ミドリ, 緑, 翠, pronounced [miꜜdoɾi]) is the Japanese word for "green" and may refer to:

Places

Midori, Gunma

Midori-ku, Chiba

Midori-ku, Nagoya

Midori-ku, Sagamihara

Midori-ku, Saitama

Midori-ku, Yokohama

People

Given name

Midori (actress) (Michele Watley, born 1968), American pornographic actress

Midori (author), Japanese author on human sexuality

Midori (violinist) (Midori Gotō (五嶋 みどり; born 1971), Japanese-American violinist

Midori Furusawa (古澤 緑; born 1974), Japanese cross-country skier

Midori Francis, (1994) American actress

Midori Honda (本田 美登里; born 1964), Japanese football manager

Midori Ishii (石井 みどり; born 1949), Japanese politician

Midori Ito (伊藤 みどり; born 1969), Japanese former figure skater

Midori Kahata|, (1995), Japanese group rhythmic gymnast

Midori Katō (加藤 みどり; born 1939), Japanese voice actress

Midori Kinouchi (木之内 みどり; born 1957), Japanese idol

Midori Kiuchi (木内 みどり; 1950–2019), Japanese actress

Midori Kudoh (工藤 みのり; born 1967), Japanese curler

Midori Kono Thiel, (1933), Japanese American calligrapher

Midori Kuzuoka (葛岡 碧; born 1984), Japanese model

Midori Matsushima (松島 みどり; born 1956), Japanese politician

Midori Matsuya (松谷 翠; 1943–1994), Japanese pianist

Midori Miura (三浦 みどり; 1947–2012), Japanese translator

Midori Naka (仲 みどり; 1909–1945), Japanese stage actress

Midori Seiler, (born 1969), German-Japanese violinist

Midori Shimizu (disambiguation)

Midori Shintani (horticulturalist) (新谷 みどり), Japanese horticulturalist

Midori Shintani (薪谷 翠; 1980), Japanese judo wrestler

Midori Snyder, an American fantasy author

Midori Suzuki (disambiguation)

Midori Tanaka, Japanese athlete

Midori Takada (高田 みどり; born 1951), Japanese composer

Midori Takahashi (高橋 翠; born 1980), Japanese volleyball player

Midori Tatematsu (立松 緑; born 1988), Japanese musician

Midori Tateyama, (born 1980), Japanese game scriptwriter

Midori Yajima (谷島 緑; born 1979), Japanese sport shooter

Surname

Mako Midori (緑 魔子; born 1944), Japanese actress

Yurie Midori (緑 友利恵; born 1991), Japanese actress and gravure idol

Kenji Midori (緑 健児; born 1962), Japanese karate instructor

Technology

Midori (operating system), the code name for an operating system that was being developed at Microsoft

Midori (web browser), a web browser based on Electron and part of Xfce

midori Javascript Framework, a JavaScript framework

Midori and Midori-2 (or Advanced Earth Observing Satellite), two satellites launched by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

Entertainment and arts

Midori (band), a Japanese jazz-punk fusion band

Midori (1992 film), a 1992 anime film

Midori Days, a manga and anime series and its title character Midori Kasugano

Fictional characters

Midori, a mecha in the anime series Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne

Midori, the main character of the novel series .hack//CELL

Midori, an enemy character in the video game The Punisher

Midori Aoyama (also known as Princess Zerian), a character in the tokusatsu Toumei Dori-chan

Midori Asakusa (浅草みどり), a character in the anime and manga series Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!

Midori Chitose, a character in the visual novel and anime Green Green

Midori Gurin, a character from the video game Yandere Simulator

Midori Ishizaka (née Yoshinaga), a character from the manga and anime series Crayon Shin-chan

Midori Kobayashi, a character in the novel Norwegian Wood

Midori Nagumo (南雲美鳥), a protagonist of the manga and anime series CITY

Midori Nishizono, a character in the visual novel and anime Little Busters!

Midori Sawatari (猿渡 美鳥), a character from School Babysitters

Midori Sugiura, a character in the manga and anime series My-Hime and My-Otome

Midori Takamine (高峯 翠), a character from the idol rhythm game Ensemble Stars!

Midori Yamabuki (also known as Midori Norimaki), a character in the manga and anime series Dr. Slump

Midori Yamada, a character in the multimedia project Ikizulive! Love Live! Bluebird

Sapphire Kawashima (nicknamed "Midori"), a character from the novel and anime series Hibike!

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Midori” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Midori, Wikimedia and disambiguation, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1968, 1971, 1974, 1994—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Midori, Wikimedia and disambiguation is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “wikimedia disambiguation page” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3857076. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1968, 1971, 1974 and 1994.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from Midori” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.