Kobun

Kobun could refer to:

People

  • Prince Ōtomo (648–672), posthumous title Emperor Kōbun, briefly ruler of the imperial Japanese court
  • Kōbun Chino Otogawa (1938–2002), Japanese-born American Sōtō Zen priest
  • Kōbun Shizuno (born 1972), Japanese anime film and television director
  • Kōbun, a Japanese Yakuza who has taken a blood oath of allegiance to an oyabun, the head of a Yakuza clan

Other uses

  • Kōbun (period), the timeframe of the brief reign of Emperor Kōbun
  • Another name for Classical Japanese, the literary form of the Japanese language that was the standard until the early Shōwa period
  • The original Japanese name of Servbot, an advertising character for video game developer Capcom