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Pages in category "Japanese masculine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,417 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Onna-musha. Ishi-jo wielding a naginata, woodblock print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1848. Onna-musha (女武者) is a term referring to female warriors in pre-modern Japan, [1][2] who were members of the bushi (warrior) class. They were trained in the use of weapons to protect their household, family, and honour in times of war; [3][4] many of them ...
The explanation is that in Japanese, まめ, マメ (mame) can also be written as 魔目 (mame), meaning the devil's eye, or 魔滅 (mametsu), meaning to destroy the devil. During the Edo period (1603–1867), the custom spread to Shinto shrines , Buddhist temples and the general public.
One Japanese boy name — Kai — has been in the top 100 baby boy names for the last five years, according to the Social Security Administration. It has steadily been climbing up the list for the ...
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Toyotomi clan mon (Japanese emblem) Toyotomi Hideyoshi (豊臣 秀吉, 17 March 1537 – 18 September 1598), otherwise known as Kinoshita Tōkichirō (木下 藤吉郎) and Hashiba Hideyoshi (羽柴 秀吉), was a Japanese samurai and daimyō (feudal lord) of the late Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods and regarded as the second "Great Unifier ...
Kōjin (三宝荒神), is the god of fire, the hearth, and the kitchen. Konjin (金神) Kotoshironushi (事代主神) Kuebiko (久延毘古), the god of knowledge and agriculture, represented in Japanese mythology as a scarecrow who cannot walk but has comprehensive awareness. Kukunochi, believed to be the ancestor of trees.
Asuka / Heian periods (709–1184) Note: there are different shogun titles. For example, Kose no Maro had the title of Mutsu Chintō Shōgun (陸奥鎮東将軍, lit. "Great General of Subduing Mutsu"). Ki no Kosami had the title of Seitō Taishōgun (征東大将軍, lit. "Commander-in-chief for the pacification of the East") [5] in 789 which ...