Kaname Yashiki

I love a good second act, and Kaname Yashiki has one of the best. Picture a tall, lean outfielder out of Kawanishi, Hyogo, tearing around the basepaths in the speed-obsessed Japanese baseball of the eighties, all sprint and instinct under the lights. Then he trades the glove for a camera and becomes a photographer, which honestly feels perfect to me. There's a quiet logic to it: an athlete spends decades reading motion, timing, the split-second moment, and then turns that same trained eye toward stillness. Three straight stolen-base titles from 1986 to 1988 with the Taiyo Whales tell you how fast he was, and the arc from there is what moves me. From chasing the ball to framing the world, he's aged into something graceful, and I think that's pretty cool.

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Kaname Yashiki is a Japanese former professional baseball player turned photographer, born on June 11, 1959, in Kawanishi, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Standing 178 cm tall, he is a Gemini born in the Year of the Boar. After his baseball career he pursued photography as a second vocation. Further details of his career and personal life are not publicly available.

Name (English)

Kaname Yashiki

Name (Japanese)

屋鋪要

Reading

やしき かなめ

Born

June 11, 1959 (age 67)

Origin

Kawanishi, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

Height

178cm

Occupation

Baseball Player / Photographer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Boar

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%8B%E9%8B%AA%E8%A6%81
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11465712

Tags

• From Hyogo Prefecture
• Baseball Player
• Photographer

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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