This Japanese name has two meanings- queen or princess. The meaning of this name can vary based on the context. For example, the name suggests a reigning queen, or you can use this name to refer to a princess with immense power. 17. 美姫 (Bihime) Meaning “Beautiful princess.” Are ...
Meanwhile, joousama 女王様, "queen," is used for a female goshujinsama, a mistress. The counterpart, "slave," would be dorei 奴隷. So "master and slave" is goshujinsama to dorei ご主人様と奴隷, "mistress and slave," joousama to dorei 女王様と奴隷. Maid note: so with this all the...
French luxury fashion brand KENZO was founded by Kenzo Takada in 1970. The famous KENZO tiger sweater almost didn’t make it into production but is now one of their most popular designs. This could be a great name choice for parents who like the popular name Enzo, but want something Japan...
As you’ve seen, most honorifics are used as suffixes—i.e., they come after the name of the person they’re being used for. Sometimes, they can stand on their own. Knowing what they are is very important to understanding Japanese culture. If your head is already spinning from all of...
And there’s not too many Japanese movies that get namechecked on The Simpsons (‘Come on, Homer, Japan will be fun! You liked Rashomon.’‘That’s not how I remember it’). Kurosawa shows us the same incident – the murder of a samurai in the Kyoto countryside – from four ...
— Drake Bell,Seventeen, 21 Sept. 2008 For those looking for a Japanese term for "raw fish," trysashimi, the Japanese name for just that. It is a combination ofsashi("pierce") andmi("flesh"), and although sashimi is not pierced when prepared, it is sliced. ...
Born Akiko Urasaki — her stage name is short for "Asian wish child" — Awich was a natural fit for the GRAMMY Museum-sponsored "A New York Evening With…" interview and performance series. Introducing Awich and Dominguez, Lynne Sheridan, Vice President of Public Programming and Artist Relatio...
Japanese Peter Backhaus in theJapan Timesreportson a truly bizarre phenomenon: If there’s something like a Murphy’s Law for syntax, the name of this restaurant near my school is a pretty good example of it. Reading “Steak The First,” it always makes me wonder how these three words ...
she was to ask help of the great gods. At each of the seven gates of the underworld, Inanna removed part of her regalia, until, naked and bent, she came before the seven judges of the underworld and her elder twin-sister Ereshkigal, whose name means “Queen of the Great Earth.” All...
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