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Kishi may refer to:
- Kishi (Bible), biblical figure
- Kishi (folklore), means a two-faced demon in Angola
- Kishi, Iran, a village in Kerman Province, Iran
- Kishi, Hormozgan, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran
- an alternative spelling of Kisi, Nigeria, a town in Oyo State
Kishi is also a Japanese surname; people with this name include:
- Kishi Nobusuke (1896–1987), 56th and 57th Prime Minister of Japan
- Kishi Keiko (born 1932), actress
- Asako Kishi (born 1923), culinary critic
- Kichimatsu Kishi (died 1956), founder of an agricultural colony and a small oil company
- Matsuo Kishi (1906-1985), film critic and screenwriter
- Yoshito Kishi, Japanese-American chemist
- Aino Kishi, Japanese actress and AV Idol
The kishi is a two-faced demon in Angola. According to legend, a kishi has an attractive human man's face on the front of its body and a hyena's face on the back. Kishi are said to use their human face, as well as smooth talk and other charms to attract young women, who they then eat with the hyena face. The hyena face is said to have long sharp teeth and jaws so strong they cannot be pulled off of anything it bites.
The word kishi, nkishi, or mukisi means "spirit" in several Bantu languages spoken in Zaire, northern Zambia, and Angola.
Kishi (also Kushaiah) is a figure in the Old Testament. 1 Chronicles 6:44 states Kishi is a Merarite, and the father of the ancestor of Ethan the minstrel.
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