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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 ...
Tama was the name of the owner's wife, and is also a homophone with the Japanese word meaning "jewel". "Star" continues to be used in the names of Tama's drum models to this day. [5] Tama and Drum Workshop (DW) jointly bought the bankrupt Camco Drum Company. As part of the deal, DW received the Camco tooling and manufacturing equipment while ...
Tamahagane. Tamahagane (玉鋼) is a type of steel made in the Japanese tradition. 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 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.
It is often suggested that the Japanese word arigatō derives from the Portuguese obrigado, both of which mean "Thank you", but evidence indicates arigatō has a purely Japanese origin, [22] so these two words are false cognates. Arigatō is an "u"-sound change of arigataku. [23]
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".
Tama (Japanese: たま, April 29, 1999 – June 22, 2015) was a female calico cat who gained fame for being a railway station master and operating officer at Kishi Station on the Kishigawa Line in Kinokawa, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.
Tama kanzashi (玉簪, "ball kanzashi ") Single-pronged hairpin style kanzashi decorated with a single coloured bead on the end. Tama kanzashi are commonly made of semi-precious stones such as jade or coral, or may be made of shibori-dyed fabric. Traditionally, red tama kanzashi were worn in the winter months, and green tama kanzashi were worn ...