If you’d like your cat’s name to have an Asian influence but aren’t sure where to start looking, we can help. Here, you’ll find a list of hundreds of cat names organized into categories, including nature, pop culture, and coat color. Read on to start making a shortlist of all...
1851. Beside the signature is the seal shita-uri, “low sale” meaning it was sold “under the counter” due to censorship laws prevalent at the time. This is the very rare first edition with the carver’s seal Hori Take, Yokokawa Takejiro, to the right of the publisher’s seal on ...
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It depends on the meaning you want storm to have. If you want “heavy rain,” it would be Oobuki, but if you want it along the lines of “tempest/difficulty or windstorm” it would be Arashi. You can always look through a Japanese/English dictionary as well to get the perfect meaning...
There is an expression in Japanese –‘musha-burui’ – meaning that the body shakes to summon up bravery to confront some danger or difficulty. The boy’s shaking, however, was just a passive response to his anxiety, and the cold. The bus arrived and stopped in front of the entrance ...
Japanese also makes intransitive verbs passive; a passive sentence, such asBoku-wa haha-ni shin-are-ta(literally, I-[topic] mother-[dative] die-[passive-past]) ‘I suffered from Mother’s dying,’ characteristically expresses the adversative meaning of suffering or inconvenience experienced by th...
Founded in 1949 by Kihachiro Onitsuka, ASICS has grown to become one of the leading names in the world of sportswear, above all for its range of footwear. The name ASICS is an acronym of the Latin phrase: anima sana in corpore sano, meaning “healthy soul in a healthy body”, referring...
Bu 部. Japanese term meaning “division” or “family.” Esoteric deities are generally classified into one of the following families: Buddha Family (Butsu-bu 仏部), Buddha-Crown Family (Butchō-bu or Bucchō-bu 仏頂部), Sutra-Rite Family (Kyōbō-bu 経法部), Bodhisattva Family (Bosatsu-...
Meaning: Being extremely busy, so that you need every little bit of help you can get Example: 昨日は猫の手も借りたいほど、とても忙しかったです。 Kinō wa neko no te mo karitai hodo, totemo isogashikatta desu. “Yesterday was so busy that I even wanted to get help from a cat.”...
For example, neko could mean “cat” or “cats.” There are rare nouns in Japanese that are plural by nature. This includes words like hitobito (人々) meaning “people” and kuniguni (国々) meaning “countries.” However, besides proper nouns, no inherently singular nouns exist in ...