Sō

Sō, So or Sou (written: 宗 or 宋) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Sō Shiseki (宋 紫石) (1715–1786), Japanese painter
• Sō Yoshitoshi (宗 義智) (1568–1615), Japanese daimyō
• Sō Yoshiyori (宗 義和) (1818-1890), Japanese daimyō

Sō (written: 壮 or 創) is also a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:

• So Hirao (平尾 壮, born 1996), Japanese footballer
• Sō Kuramoto (倉本 聰, born 1934), Japanese playwright and screenwriter
• So Nakagawa (中川 創, born 1999), Japanese footballer
• So Taguchi (田口 壮, born 1969), Japanese baseball player
• So Nishikawa, Japanese-Australian association football player

Sō is the romanization of the uncommon Japanese surname written 曹 in Kanji, which derived from the Chinese surname Cao.

Fictional characters

• So Inuoka (犬岡 走), a character from the manga and anime Haikyu!! with the position of (originally middle blocker) wing spiker from Nekoma High

See also

• Sō clan