The yawara is a Japanese weapon used in various martial arts.
Yawara may also refer to:
- Yawara, an obsolete term for jujutsu (based on an alternate pronunciation of the 柔 kanji)
- Yawara!, a manga series, as well as the anime and live-action series based on the manga
- "Yawara-chan", the nickname of Ryoko Tani, after the main character in the Yawara! manga
- Yawara, Ibaraki, a village in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
People with the given name
- Yawara Hata (畑 和, 1910–1996), Japanese politician
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