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Japanese Rōmaji Japanese script Japanese meaning Pre-modern Portuguese Modern Portuguese English translation of Portuguese Notes † [1] anjo: アンジョ angel anjo anjo angel Replaced in modern usage by 天使 (tenshi, literally "heavens" + "envoy"). † bateren: 伴天連 / 破天連 a missionary priest (mainly from Jesuit) padre padre priest
The first, 千 (chi), means "thousand" and the second, 葉 (ba) means "leaves". The name first appears as an ancient kuni no miyatsuko, or regional command office, as the Chiba Kuni no Miyatsuko (千葉国造). The name was adopted by a branch of the Taira clan, which moved to the area in present-day Chiba City in the late Heian period.
The statistics also do not take into account minority groups who are Japanese citizens such as the Ainu (an aboriginal people primarily living in Hokkaido), the Ryukyuans (from the Ryukyu Islands south of mainland Japan), naturalized citizens from backgrounds including but not limited to Korean and Chinese, and citizen descendants of immigrants ...
Otoha (おとは, オトハ) is a feminine Japanese given name. Otoha can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: 乙羽, "maiden, feathers" 乙葉, "maiden, leaf" 音羽, "sound, feathers" 音葉, "sound, leaf" The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.
Shiori Saito (齋藤 栞, born 1998), Japanese badminton player; Shiori Sato (佐藤 栞, born 1990), Japanese model; Shiori Sekine (関根 史織), Japanese musician, vocalist, and the only female member of Base Ball Bear; Shiori Shimizu (清水 栞, born 1996), Japanese professional footballer; Shiori Tamai (玉井 詩織), Japanese singer, idol
Meaning: sky, empty: Other names; ... Sora (written: 天, 穹, 青空 or 曾良) is a unisex Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: People
Gairaigo are Japanese words originating from, or based on, foreign-language, generally Western, terms.These include wasei-eigo (Japanese pseudo-anglicisms).Many of these loanwords derive from Portuguese, due to Portugal's early role in Japanese-Western interaction; Dutch, due to the Netherlands' relationship with Japan amidst the isolationist policy of sakoku during the Edo period; and from ...
Japan is often divided into regions, each containing one or more of the country's 47 prefectures at large. Sometimes, they are referred to as "blocs" (ブロック, burokku), or "regional blocs" (地域ブロック, chiiki burokku) as opposed to more granular regional divisions.