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. I don't know his exact stat lines or any hardware on his shelf, but I don't need them to find this arc moving. From chasing the ball to framing the world, he's aged into something graceful, and I think that's pretty cool.

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)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Boar (I)

Origin

Kawanishi, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

Height

178cm

Occupation

Baseball Player / Photographer

Motto

Private

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

Tags

• From Hyogo Prefecture
• Baseball Player
• Photographer

Last updated

2026-06-02

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