The name Saburō was traditionally given to the third son of the family. With smaller families, the traditional use of Saburō is rare today, but it’s significantly more common than names that mean ninth son or tenth son. 78. Shigeru Shigeru, written as 茂, means luxuriant, lush. Shigeru...
Carol Bess White, Made in Japan books has it that Goldcastle, CHIKUSA belongs to Tashiro Shoten Ltd in Nagoya, Japan. Other names used by Tashiro Shoten are "Trico", "Trico China", "Royal Trico", and two logo marks: Elephant above MADE IN JAPAN and TA within a cherry blossom flower....
there are names of pieces played and dances performed in Japan that are also found in Tang Chinese lists. Unlike in China, however, many of those works are still played in Japan, and a few of the original costumes andmasksused at that time are preserved. Perhaps the most-valuabletreasurein...
the English text. There were lots of names and nouns, and you dealt with onomatopoeia that’s so great in the Japanese language for its simplicity, but can be a real headache for J to E translators for whom that simplicity is elusive. How did you decide which words to leave in Japanese...
Riku pays a visit to Jyubei, who gives him a large sum of gold for his services and reveals that he intends to use Towa, Setsuna and Moroha in his plan to defeat the remaining perils so that he can obtain all the Rainbow Pearls. Meanwhile, the three girls follow Yotsume to Kyuki's...
Hiromi Suzuki was one of the first female sushi chefs in New York in a profession that was always male-dominated because the common belief was that a woman’s soft warm hands would ruin the fish. At age 8, she convinced her father to take her to the Fulton fish market and from there...
In this work he is seated on a chair, holding a scroll and a staff (shakujō 錫杖), accompanied by two young male attendants (douji 童子), whose names are Shukuō 宿王and Hannya 般若. Also present is Hinomiko 火御子, the protective deity of the earth (Jinushigami 地主神). Shinra ...
Plus, Farfetch’d is a silly, fun Pokémon, so it fits. This name will also work with male or females. Of course the stick can be the basis of various names. I have named Farfetch’d “Leeks” because the stick does resemblea leek used for French cooking. ...
It was said that gold is so malleable, and tanuki skin so strong, that even a small piece [of gold] could be thinned to the size of eight tatami mats (Hachijōjiki 八畳敷き; about 12 sq. meters). And because the Japanese for ’small ball of gold’ (kin no tama 金の玉) is ...
1). Thus, a single male line, probably originating in Mongolia, has spread in the last ∼1,000 years to represent ∼8% of the males in a region stretching from northeast China to Uzbekistan”. Researchers show the footprint of Genghis Khan Y-chromosome star-cluster marker across Eurasia...