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Tama is featured in the Animal Planet series Must Love Cats. The host, John Fulton, honored her with a visit and a song. [25] Tama made an appearance on Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways in the episode entitled "The Great Japanese Train Ride", Chris Tarrant visits Kishi station, meets Tama and explores the impact she has had on the local economy ...
Tama (cat), a cat who was a stationmaster of a Japanese railway station; TAMA 300, a gravitational wave detector; Tama Art University, a Japanese private art school; Tama edwardsi, a genus of spiders; Tama Toshi Monorail Line (多摩都市モノレール線), in Tokyo, Japan; Tama Electric Car Company, a car manufacturer which became Prince ...
The Japanese language makes use of a system of honorific speech, called keishō (敬称), which includes honorific suffixes and prefixes when talking to, or referring to others in a conversation. Suffixes are often gender-specific at the end of names, while prefixes are attached to the beginning of many nouns.
The grave of Hosokawa Gracia and Hosokawa Tadaoki, Kōtō-in, Daitoku-ji, Kyoto. Akechi Tama (明智たま, Akechi Tama), usually referred to as Hosokawa Gracia (細川ガラシャ, Hosokawa Garasha), (1563 – 25 August 1600) was a member of the aristocratic Akechi family from the Sengoku period. [1]
The Japanese word mitama (御魂・御霊・神霊, 'honorable spirit') refers to the spirit of a kami or the soul of a dead person. [1] It is composed of two characters, the first of which, mi (御, honorable), is simply an honorific. The second, tama (魂・霊) means "spirit".
Tamahime (珠姫) or Tama (1599-1622) was a Japanese noble lady, member of the aristocrat Tokugawa family during the Edo period. She was the second daughter of the shogun Tokugawa Hidetada , and her mother was Oeyo , both important figures who stabilized and ruled the Tokugawa shogunate .
The word tama means 'precious', and the word hagane means 'steel'. [1] Tamahagane is used to make Japanese swords , daggers , knives , and other kinds of tools. The carbon content of the majority of analyzed Japanese swords historically lies between a mass of 0.5–0.7%; however, the range extends up to 1.5%.
In current Japanese usage, Wa 倭 is an archaic variant Chinese character for Wa 和, Yamato is a literary and historical term, and Nihon is the usual name for "Japan; Japanese". Tamashii or tama (魂 "soul; spirit; ghost" or 霊 "spirit; soul") is Japanese kun'yomi, while kon or gon is Chinese on'yomi (from hún 魂).