Japanese Female Names 117 



Tetsu . . ("Iron") 4 



Toku . . ("Virtue") 2 



Tomt . . ("Stop," cease) 1 1 



Tomi . . ("Riches") 3 



Tomju . . (" Wealth-and-Longevity") .... 1 



Tomo . . ("The Friend") 4 



Tora. . . ("Tiger") 1 



Tosbi . . ("Arrowhead") 1 



Toyo . . . ("Abundance") 3 



Tsugf . . (" Next," i. e., second in order of 



birth) 2 



Tsuna . . (" Bond," rope, or fetter) .... 1 



Tsune . . (" The Constant," or, as we should 



say, Constance) 10 



Tsuru . . ("Stork") 4 



Ume . . . ("Plum-blossom") 1 



Umega'i . . (" Plumtree-spray " ) 1 



Umeno . . (" Plumtree-field ") 2 



Urano . . ("Shore-field") 1 



Usbi . . . ("Cow," -or Ox) 2 1 



Ufa . . . (" Poem," or Song) 1 



Wakana . (" Young Na," probably the rape- 

 plant is referred to) 1 



Yaf . . . ("Eight-fold") 1 



Yasu. . . ("The Tranquil") 1 



1 Such a name may signify that the parents resolved, after the birth 

 of the girl, to have no more children. 



2 This extraordinary name is probably to be explained as a refer- 

 ence to date of birth. According to the old Chinese astrology, years, 

 months, days, and hours were all named after the Signs of the Zodiac, 

 and were supposed to have some mystic relation to those signs. I sur- 

 mise that Miss Ushi was born at the Hour of the Ox, on the Day of the 

 Ox, in the Month of the Ox and the Year of the Ox " Usbi no Tosbi 

 HO Usbi no Tsuki no Usbi no Hi no Usbi no Koku." 



