This term is placed before the person’s title. For example, your daughter in law is 義理の娘 (ぎりのむすめ, giri no musume). In-laws follow the same rules as all the words above, just with 義理の added in front! This term can also be used for members of your step family....
second daughter The twosisters, one the deva 功德女 "merit" or "achieving", who causes people to acquire wealth; the other, 黑闇女 the "dark" one, who causes them to spend and waste; thesesistersalways accompany each other. 妯娌
娘[むすめ]:daughter, girl 楽しむ[たのしむ]:enjoy 色[いろ]:color みんな:everybody 取る[とる]:take, get 勉強[べんきょう]:study できる:can do, be good at 短い[みじかい]:short, brief 落ちる[おちる]:fall, come down 息子[むすこ]:son 白い[しろい]:white, ...
The popular story has many versions, the gist being that Oiwa’s husband, Kamiya Lemon, falls in love with Oume, the daughter of a rich neighbour. Oume’s family poison Oiwa so that Lemon can marry the daughter. The poison hideously disfigures Oiwa who comes back to haunt Lemon. ...
This is the standard, polite word for mother in Japanese. Okaasan is used when speaking to your own mother. This is also the proper way to refer to somebody else’s mother when you talk about them.Examples:Speaking to your own mother:...
An original preparatory drawing by Kuniyoshi for an unpublished triptych showing the combat between Minazuru-hime, the daughter of Ki-ichi Hogen, and Kitashirakawa Tankai. The largest collection of such drawings is in the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden from the Lieftinck collection. Sumi and...
Finally,giri nocan also mean ‘step’ as in ‘stepsister’. The Japanese have a conservative stance on divorce, hence, there is no exact word for step siblings. You can refer to your sister, however, withiboshimai(異母姉妹 / いぼしまい) if you have different mothers orifushimai(異父姉...
32.Ami.Pronounced like thecountry girls’ nameAmy, this moniker means “second” or “Asia” from the word a, and “beautiful” from the wordmi. This might be a good name for your beautiful second-born daughter. 33.Emi.This cute Japanese girls’ name sounds lovely and comes with a pret...
Last night my daughter didn't come home until half past one. She's signed up for a couple of night classes at the local college. Night coming on, we left for home. There had never been any ill-feeling between them until that night. Last night, his grandfather passed away in the hosp...
Here’s one I thought I ought to revisit. I got a couple boxes of samples from the kind folks over at Maruchan recently and this was in there. I wasn’t going to review it again, but my daughter Mimi asked to try it the other day. It smelled really nice, so I figured let’s ...