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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 (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.
Tamahime (珠姫) or Tama (1599-1622) was a Japanese noble lady, member of the aristocrat Tokugawa family during the Edo period.She was the second daughter of the shogun Tokugawa Hidetada, and her mother was Oeyo, both important figures who stabilized and ruled the Tokugawa shogunate.
The list is sorted by Japanese reading (on'yomi in katakana, then kun'yomi in hiragana), in accordance with the ordering in the official Jōyō table. This list does not include characters that were present in older versions of the list but have since been removed ( 勺 , 銑 , 脹 , 錘 , 匁 ).
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 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".
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 carbon content of the majority of analyzed Japanese swords historically lies between a mass of 0.5–0.7%; however, the range extends up to 1.5%.
On one end of the ken is a cup, while the other end of ken is narrowed down, forming a spike (kensaki) that fits into the hole (ana) of the tama. The kendama is the Japanese version of the classic cup-and-ball game, [1] and is also a variant of the French cup-and-ball game bilboquet. Kendama can be held in different grips, and many tricks and ...