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|title = Norisuke Higashikata I

|colors = SteelBallRun

|image = [[File:Norisuke Higashikata I Infobox Manga.png|{{ImageSize}}]]

|ja_kanji = ノリスケ・ヒガシカタ<br />初代 東方 憲助

|age horse = 68<ref[[Hono]] name=SBRC40>{{Ch|SBR(Flame) (Bavarian ChapterWarm 40}}</ref>Blood)

|deathstatus = 1931<refDeceased name=JJLC11P18/>{{S|Part 8}}

|cod death = Natural1931<ref causesname=JJLC11P18/>

|gendercod = MaleNatural {{Gender|Male}}causes

|nationgender = Japanese= {{FlagGender|JapanMale}}

{{Nihongo|'''Norisuke Higashikata I'''|初代 東方 憲助|Shodai Higashikata Norisuke}} is a tertiary character featured in  the seventh part of the ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' series, ''[[STEELSteel BALLBall RUNRun]]'', and briefly mentioned in the eighth part, ''[[JoJolion]]''.

Norisuke is a Japanese competitor in the [[Steel Ball Run (raceRace)|Steel Ball Run race]]. He accumulates significance in ''[[JoJolion]]'' when he is revealed to have established the success of the [[Higashikata Family|Higashikata bloodline]], founding the [[Higashikata Fruit Company]].

He wears plain pants but has a distinctive jacket covered in large decorative patches like chainmail. Norisuke is also armed with a rifle.

How skilled he is at horseback riding is unknown. However, he seems to be professional, as he ended up being second place in the [[Steel Ball Run (raceRace)|Steel Ball Run race]].

Norisuke lived in the {{W|Sendai Domain}}.<ref name="SBRC40" /> According to [[Tsurugi Higashikata]]'s explanation of the Higashikata family's superstitious beliefs of warding away "demons of sickness", Norisuke, being the firstborn son of his family, was raised as a girl until age twelve.<ref name="JJLC23P23">{{Ch|JJL Chapter 23}}, p.23</ref> At some point when he was 68 years old, a report on Norisuke was published in a newspaper for having two navels, considering it one of the oddities of the world. His parents and grandparents only had one navel, and research was being conducted on his navels by several medical experts.<ref name="SBRC40" />

===STEELSteel BALLBall RUNRun===

Norisuke isplaces able to place 1stfirst during the fourth4th StageSTAGE of the [[Steel Ball Run (raceRace)|Steel Ball Run race]]. Following the end of the fourth4th stageSTAGE, Norisuke is seen trying to get water for his horse while talking with [[Hot Pants]] about how he had gotten first place. He directs her to a newspaper with an article on him, revealing the fact that he had two navels. According to the newspaper, Norisuke's navels were one of the oddities of the world and current research was being conducted on them by several medical experts. He asks Hot pantsPants if she wantedwants to touch them, though she refuses out of disgust. He states that she had made the right choice, as it would have been improper of someone like her to touch it.<ref name="SBRC40" />

==Chapters / Episodes==

|Part 7 = |

|-Part 8|

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*The {{W|Kanji|kanji}} spelling of Norisuke's name was only later revealed on the [[Higashikata Family|family tree]] in ''[[JoJolion]]''.<ref name="JJLC11"/> When Norisuke was first introduced in ''[[STEELSteel BALLBall RUNRun]]'', his name was originally written in {{W|Katakana|katakana}} as {{Nihongo|"Norisuke Higashikata"|ノリスケ・ヒガシカタ}}.<ref>[[JOJOVELLER]]</ref>

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