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Pages in category "Japanese masculine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,416 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Most names of colors originate from the names of plants, flowers, and animals that bore or resembled them. Certain colors and dyeing techniques have been used since the Asuka period , while others had been developed as late as the Meiji period when synthetic dyes became common.
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Akai Kutsu (赤い靴, lit. "Red Shoes") is a well-known Japanese children's poem written in 1922 by poet Ujō Noguchi.It is also famous as a Japanese folk song for children, with music composed by Nagayo Motoori.
In some names, Japanese characters phonetically "spell" a name and have no intended meaning behind them. Many Japanese personal names use puns. [16] Although usually written in kanji, Japanese names have distinct differences from Chinese names through the selection of characters in a name and the pronunciation of them. A Japanese person can ...
This short and pretty name has Portuguese and Spanish origins and a straightforward meaning of “light.” 3. Haruko. Haruko is a Japanese name that means “spring child,” “light” and ...
The name also contains a floral metaphor. The word nadeshiko refers to Dianthus superbus, a frilled pink carnation. [3] The word nadeshiko (撫子) also means beloved or dear child (lit. "child being petted"). The combination of these two meanings indicates a flower of the Japanese nation, that is, a standard of female beauty that is uniquely ...
In the feminine name Eiko, "ko" is generally written with a kanji meaning "child" , while "Ei" may be written in a wide variety of ways with either a single kanji read "ei" or two kanji read "e" and "i", including: [2]