Japanese Female Names 127 



O-Naka .... "Friendship." 



O-Rai "Trust." 



O-Raku l .... "Pleasure." 



O-Sacbi .... "Bliss." 



O-Sai The Talented." 



Sakas "Prosperity." 



O-Saku . . . . " The Blooming." 



O-Sei " The Refined," in the sense of 



" clear." 



O-Sei "Force." 



O-Sen " Sennin," wood-fairy. 



O-Sbige . . . . " Exuberant" 



O-Sbitne .... "The Total," summum bonum. 



O-Sbin "The Fresh." 



O-Sbin "Truth." 



O-Sbina, .... "Goods," possessions. 



Sbtrusbi .... "Proof," evidence. 



O-Sbipt .... "The Humble." 



O-5*o "Truth." 



O-Sbun .... "Excellence." 



O-Suki " The Beloved," Aimee. 



O-Suke "The Helper." 



O-Sumi .... "The Refined," in the sense of 



" sifted." 



O-Sute "The Forsaken," foundling. 2 



1 The name seems curious, in view of the common proverb, Rahu 

 via ku no tone, " Pleasure is the seed of pain." 



1 Not necessarily a real foundling. Sometimes the name may be 

 explained by a curious old custom. In a certain family several children 

 in succession die shortly after birth. It is decided, according to tra- 

 ditional usage, that the next child born must be exposed. A girl is the 

 next child born ; she is carried by a servant to some lonely place in 

 the fields, or elsewhere, and left there. Then a peasant, or other person, 

 hired for the occasion (it is necessary that he should be of no kin to the 



