Izumi Shimada 島田泉 is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale and 2007 Outstanding Scholar with research interests in the archaeology of complex pre-Hispanic cultures in the Andes, the technology and organization of craft production, mortuary analysis, experimental archaeology, the role of ideology and organized religion in cultural developments, and ecology-culture interaction.
Kazuya Terashima, known by his pen name Izumi Matsumoto, is a Japanese manga artist best known for Kimagure Orange Road. His career started in 1982, publishing his comic Milk Report in the manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump. But real success came in 1984, publishing in the same magazine his masterpiece Kimagure Orange Road.
Izumi Kitta is a Japanese voice actress. She is best known as the voice of Cordelia Glauca in the media franchise Tantei Opera Milky Holmes. Her first maxi single, "Colorful Garden" was released on April 6, 2011. Kitta attended Dwango Creative School, a voice actor training school in 2007, started her career as a voice actress from 2008. After leaving Dwango Artist Production, she is now affiliated with Hibiki Cast. She voices title character Tomoko Kuroki in the WataMote anime and Misaki Tokura in the Cardfight! Vanguard series.
Izumi Aso is a Japanese manga artist known for her Hikari no Densetsu series. Izumi Aso at an early age was a very active young woman who enjoyed drawing. In her late teens she decided that she was going to become a manga artist. In the early 1980s she debuted as a manga artist and writer in Margaret Magazine (with "NY de dokkiri!"), this would become the magazine/publishing house that would go on to edit and publish her other works of manga series in the future. As a manga artist, Aso focused on the style of drawing that gives the impression that the drawn figures are going to pop out of the pages. This style would later become useful in her later manga works that would focus on sports such as baseball, skating, among other sports. Aso would later on after her debut as an artist detach her interest for the depiction of the body in motion and would search for a more emotional expression in her later works as a manga artist.
Izumi is mostly feminine, but there are males named this as well, one of them being Democratic Party of Japan politician and member of the House of Representatives in the Diet, Izumi Yoshida (1949-).
To the person who said this name is ugly and means "inventions" in Croatian/Serbian/Bosnian: I personally don't think this name is ugly—I actually think it's quite beautiful—but I will respect your opinion anyway. Even if it does mean "inventions" in those Slavic languages, what do they have to do with this Japanese name? Most people probably don't even know what it means in Croatian, Serbian, and Bosnian.
― Anonymous User 12/29/2016
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Izumi is one of the names of the schoolgirls in Ju-on.