Nobu Matsuhisa

What I admire most about Nobu is not the Michelin star or the global empire of restaurants stretching from New York to Tokyo, but the audacity of the idea behind it. Taking the discipline of Japanese cuisine and marrying it to Peruvian ingredients could have been a gimmick; instead he made it a language the whole world wanted to speak. That a chef from Saitama redefined how the planet thinks about Japanese food tells you he was never just cooking. He was translating culture, plate by plate, and trusting his own palate against the world's expectations.

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Name (English)

Nobu Matsuhisa

Name (Japanese)

松久信幸

Reading

まつひさ のぶゆき

Born

March 10, 1949 (age 77)

Origin

Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

chef / businessperson / actor / cook

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Ox

Awards & achievements

• Michelin star

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/therealnobu/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobu%20Matsuhisa
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%BE%E4%B9%85%E4%BF%A1%E5%B9%B8
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2555878

Tags

• Saitama Prefecture
• chef
• businessperson
• actor

Last updated

September 23, 2026

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