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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 ...
Miyuki Hatoyama (鳩山 幸, born 1943), former Japanese first lady, wife of Yukio Hatoyama, formerly performed as an actress Miyuki Waka at the Takarazuka Revue Miyuki Iguchi , Japanese athlete Miyuki Imori ( 井森 美幸 , born 1968) , Japanese television personality, idol, actress and singer
Shizuko Ihara (静子), Japanese enka singer professionally known as Mina Aoe; Susana Shizuko Higuchi Miyagawa (シズコ), Japanese Peruvian politician and engineer. Ex-wife of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori. Shizuko Hoshi (シズコ), Japanese American actress and theatre director. Widow of Japanese actor Makoto "Mako" Iwamatsu.
The name Mitsuko is generally written with the kanji characters 光 and 子 which, when translated into English can mean "light, child" or "shining, child". [2] Mitsuko can have different meanings depending on which kanji characters are used to write the name. Some possible variations of the name Mitsuko are: 光子, "light, child"
When a person (traditionally the wife in many cultures) assumes the family name of their spouse, in some countries that name replaces the person's previous surname, which in the case of the wife is called the maiden name ("birth name" is also used as a gender-neutral or masculine substitute for maiden name), whereas a married name is a family name or surname adopted upon marriage.
Nōhime, Nohime (濃姫, lit. ' Lady Nō '), also known as Kichō (帰蝶) was a Japanese woman from the Sengoku period to the Azuchi–Momoyama period.She was the daughter of Saitō Dōsan, a Sengoku Daimyō of the Mino Province, and the lawful wife of Oda Nobunaga, a Sengoku Daimyō of the Owari Province.
Aoi no Ue (葵の上), a wife of Hikaru Genji in the classic The Tale of Genji Aoi Umenokoji ( 梅小路 葵 ) , a character in the video game series Virtua Fighter Aoi Todo ( 東堂 葵 ) , a character in the manga and anime series Jujutsu Kaisen who is the BROTHER of protagonist Yuji Itadori
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.