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Pages in category "Japanese feminine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 543 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Yuki-onna illustration from Sogi Shokoku Monogatari. Yuki-onna originates from folklores of olden times; in the Muromachi period Sōgi Shokoku Monogatari by the renga poet Sōgi, there is a statement on how he saw a yuki-onna when he was staying in Echigo Province (now Niigata Prefecture), indicating that the legends already existed in the Muromachi period.
Pages in category "Japanese unisex given names" The following 168 pages are in this category, out of 168 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Aguri;
Snow Woman (story; Japanese: ゆきおんな, romanized: Yuki-onna), a story in the Tokyo Kodomo Club; The Snow Women (novella), a 1970 sword-and-sorcery novella by Fritz Leiber; The Snow Woman (novel), a 1968 novel by Stella Gibbons; The Snow Woman (film; Japanese: 怪談雪女郎, romanized: Kaidan Yukijorō, lit.
Japanese names (日本人の氏名、日本人の姓名、日本人の名前, Nihonjin no shimei, Nihonjin no seimei, Nihonjin no namae) in modern times consist of a family name (surname) followed by a given name. Japanese names are usually written in kanji, where the pronunciation follows a special set of rules. Because parents when naming ...
The name Kuraokami combines kura 闇 "dark; darkness; closed" and okami 龗 "dragon tutelary of water". This uncommon kanji (o)kami or rei 龗, borrowed from the Chinese character ling 龗 "rain-dragon; mysterious" (written with the "rain" radical 雨, 3 口 "mouths", and a phonetic of long 龍 "dragon") is a variant Chinese character for Japanese rei < Chinese ling 靈 "rain-prayer ...
Author and folklorist Matthew Meyer has described the Kuchisake-onna legend as having roots dating back to Japan's Edo period, which spanned from the 17th to 19th centuries [1] but Japanese literature professor Iikura Yoshiyuki believes it dates from the 1970s. [3] In print, the legend of Kuchisake-onna dates back to at least as early as 1979.
Yuki Kamifuku (上福佑季, born 1993)is a Japanese professional wrestler; Yuki Kashiwagi (柏木 由紀, born 1991), Japanese idol and singer; Yuki Kato (geisha) (加藤 ユキ, 1881–1963), Japanese wife of Pierpont Morgan's nephew; Yuki Kato (athlete) (加藤 有希), Japanese Paralympic athlete; Yuki Kato (actress) (born 1995), Indonesian ...