Takuma Kirishiki

Takuma Kirishiki is not the name that sells jerseys. Born June 20, 1999, in Konosu, Saitama, he pitches for the Hanshin Tigers — and if you follow Japanese baseball only through highlight reels, you may never have registered him at all. That is the nature of the job. A relief pitcher is remembered almost exclusively for the nights he fails; the nights he succeeds simply become a scoreline someone else gets credit for. I find that quietly unfair, and quietly admirable. Someone has to warm up every single evening on the chance the phone rings, knowing the reward for perfection is silence. The publicly confirmed record on him here is thin — a birth date, a hometown, a team, a left arm. I would rather say that plainly than dress it up. Thin records usually mean a player has not been talked about yet, not that there is nothing worth talking about. Tigers fans already know better.

Name (English)

Takuma Kirishiki

Name (Japanese)

桐敷拓馬

Reading

きりしき たくま

Born

June 20, 1999 (age 27)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Rabbit

Occupation

professional baseball player

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takuma%20Kirishiki
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A1%90%E6%95%B7%E6%8B%93%E9%A6%AC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109598655

Tags

• professional baseball player

Last updated

2026-08-07

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.