Yuna

Yuna Japanese: 湯女 (yuna) were the name of Japanese bathhouse girls during the Edo Period whose official job was bathing and massaging clients, but also served as unlicensed prostitutes outside the Yoshiwara from roughly 1630 until 1657.

Yuna is a Japanese female given name. Yuna is also a female given name from Brittany, a translation of the French Jeanne. Yuna may also refer to:

Geography

• Yuna River, an important body of water located in the northeastern coast of the Dominican Republic
• Yuna, Western Australia, a Mid West region of Western Australia

People

• Yuna (singer) (born 1986), or Yunalis Zarai, Indie pop singer-songwriter from Malaysia
• Im Yoona (born 1990), a Korean singer and actress, a member of Girls' Generation
• Kim Yuna (born 1990), a Korean figure skater
• Younha (born 1988), a Korean singer-songwriter
• Yuna Aoi, a Japanese writer and manga artist and creator of Awaken Forest
• Yuna Ito (born 1983), an American Japanese pop singer-songwriter
• Yuna Kagesaki (born 1973), a Japanese manga artist and creator of Chibi Vampire
• Yuna Takanagi, a Japanese manga artist and creator of Shiki Tsukai

Fiction

• Kagurazaka Yuna, the main character in the anime and video game series Galaxy Fraulein Yuna
• Konnyaku Yuna, a fictional character from the anime Kage Kara Mamoru!
• Yuna (Breath of Fire IV), an antagonist character in the Capcom video game, Breath of Fire IV
• Yuna (Final Fantasy), a primary character in several video games produced by Square, particularly Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2
• Yuna (Mega Man Legends 2), a character featured in the Capcom video game, Mega Man Legends 2
• Yuna Roma Seiran, a fictional character from the anime Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
• Yuna (Stitch!), fictional character of the cartoon Stitch!

Other

• ST Yuna, an Australian tugboat
• Yuna (EP), a 2008 album by Malaysian acoustic singer Yuna

See also

• Hibiscus tiliaceus, the Japanese name for a plant found predominantly in the Polynesian region
• Yunan (disambiguation)