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Pages in category "Japanese masculine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,417 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Japanese ship-naming conventions. Japanese ship names follow different conventions from those typical in the West. Merchant ship names often contain the word maru at the end (meaning circle ), while warships are never named after people, but rather after objects such as mountains, islands, weather phenomena, or animals.
Officially, among Japanese names there are 291,129 different Japanese surnames (姓, sei), [1] as determined by their kanji, although many of these are pronounced and romanized similarly. Conversely, some surnames written the same in kanji may also be pronounced differently. [ 2 ]
The following list contains the etymology of each current prefecture. The default alphabetic order in this sortable table can be altered to mirror the traditional Japanese regions and ISO parsing. Prefecture. Kanji. origin and meaning of name. Aichi. 愛知県. Aichi-ken (愛知県) means "love knowledge".
Some prominent Japanese-American women with Japanese names include artist and musician Yoko Ono, singer-songwriter Mitski (born Mitsuki Laycock), civil rights activist Yuri Kochiyama, "Orange is ...
The Japanese era name ( Japanese: 年号, Hepburn: nengō, "year name") or gengō (元号), is the first of the two elements that identify years in the Japanese era calendar scheme. The second element is a number which indicates the year number within the era (with the first year being "gan (元) "), followed by the literal "nen (年) " meaning ...
Hirano clan – descended from Prince Toneri son of Emperor Tenmu, by the Kiyowara clan. Hisamatsu clan ( 久松氏) – cadet branch of Takatsuji family who descended from Sugawara clan. Mon of the Honda clan. Hitotsuyanagi clan ( 一柳氏) – cadet branch of Kōno clan who descended from Prince Iyo, son of Emperor Kanmu.
Place names giving directions relative to a castle, such as Jōhoku (North of the Castle), Jōsai (West of the Castle) or Jōnan (South of the Castle), are common throughout Japan. minato (港) or tsu (津) for a harbor; e.g., Minato, Tokyo and Tsu, Mie. shuku or -juku (宿), a post or station town on a traditional highway; e.g., Shinjuku.