Yesterday we talked about how the 130,000 surnames in Japan came from, and it can be summed up in one word - blindly! That's right, it was taken blindly. As for how to blindly take it, see the previous article. Since it is blind, many problems will be found. Today, let's talk about Japanese surnames and first names.
Our Chinese surname represents the continuation of blood relations, and we can distinguish whether you and I are related by blood according to the surname. For example, we both have the surname Li, even if we don't know, we are still a family five hundred years ago. Japan is different, because the surname is blindly taken by everyone, so it is difficult to determine whether two people are related by blood based on the surname.
Even if you follow your mother's surname, you still have half of your mother's blood, so you are also related by blood. Japan is different. Because when giving your own family name, it is blind, so there may be such a situation: your father was lazy when taking the surname, so he copied the surname of the famous Sengoku general Kato Kiyomasa, so your family name is Kato; and your father's brother, your uncle, looked up and saw the cherry blossom tree when he was drawing water at the wellhead, so his family name was Sakurai.
This has led to the children of the two families who are obviously related by blood but have different surnames, while the two families that cannot be beaten by eight rods have the same surname. For example, you and your cousin, obviously two young people who are not guessed to be related by blood, but one surname is Kato and the other is Sakurai. And you have nothing to do with the descendants of Kato Kiyomasa, but they are all surnamed Kato.
Not only are they too casual when taking their surnames, but Japanese people are also too casual when it comes to taking names. For example, when you are born and your relatives and friends come to congratulate you, someone asks, "What is the name of your child?" Your father may open his mouth and come, "It's Called Kato Taro." "Yes, you guessed it, the eldest is called Taro, the second is called Jiro or the second son, the third is called Sanlang, and so on."
Speaking of which, I knew you were going to ask Yamamoto What is going on. In fact, it was a special case, not because his father had fifty-six children, but because yamamoto was 56 years old when he was born. In order to commemorate the glorious moment of the old man, his father named him Yamamoto Isoroku.
Pulling away again, let's go back and say the Japanese name. Because the name is too arbitrary, there are quite a few people in Japan who are called Taro. Sato is the largest surname in Japan, so there are at least tens of thousands of people called "Ichiro Sato" in all of Japan, similar to Zhang Wei, Wang Gang and Li Qiang in China. The teacher's name in class was "Ichiro Sato", and several people may have answered at the same time. There is a Sato Ichiro skipping class, and the boss does not know whether it is Sato Ichiro of the sales department or Sato Ichiro of the development department.
Not only are boys randomly named, but Japanese people are also quite casual in naming girls - Japanese women's names almost always end with "son", such as what Ryoko, Kyoko, Shengzi, Mako, Apricot, Miwako, Vegetables... And so on and so forth. It is said that about 90% of young Japanese women end with a child.
There's a saying. It is said that the Chinese character for "子" is composed of "one" and "which". "One" means beginning, and "up" means ending. The combination of these two words means that the word "son" represents the meaning of being able to go from the beginning to the end. Judging from this statement, Japan not only has a fortune teller, but also a very good business.
The surname that makes people vomit blood and the name that makes people vomit blood combine to form a name, which makes people vomit blood. Common Japanese surnames range from one word to three characters. For example, the surnames of one word are yin, wood, and causeway, and there are more than two words, such as Yoshizawa, Ayumi, Kurai, etc., and the three characters are Hasegawa, Hayaotomi, Hatano, and so on. When you see a Japanese name, you will be confused, which is the first name and which is the surname?
Don't bother with that, Hatano is the last name. The Hatano clan is a descendant of the ancient Japanese courtier Fujiwara Hidego, who moved from the Kanto to Tanba during the Heian Kyo period and developed into the Hatano clan. Therefore, the most confusing thing about Japanese names is not knowing which is the surname and which is the first name, for example, a three-character Japanese name may be in the form of 1 surname + 2 or 2 surname + 1 name, while a four-character name may be 1 surname + 3 or 2 surname + 2 or 3 surname + 1 name.
The Japanese people may also have such confusion, so in order to avoid confusion, they are accustomed to making a space between the first name and the first name, so as to facilitate the distinction between the surname and the first name. Let's take some examples: the one-character surname has "Yin zi", the two-character surname has "Shigeru Yoshida", the three-character surname has "Edogawa Conan", and so on.
If you can think of this question, it means that you have used your brain. According to Japanese officials, the emperor has no surname and no household registration. According to legend, the Emperor is the descendant of the God of Creation in Japanese legend, the God of Amaterasu. In addition, Japan has never changed dynasties, and the emperor has been changing the family since ancient times. Therefore, the emperor has no surname, only "imperial name", which is what we usually hear about Meiji, Akihito, Naruhito, and so on.
peace? hehe...... Japan has not changed dynasties, simply because the emperor is not in power, but only a mascot, and there is no threat to the rulers. Just like our ancient Chinese dynasty changed generations so many times, which dynasty and which generation replaced the dragon totem?