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suggest unpleasant puns. The place of O-Ni is 

 well supplied, however, by the name O- Tsugi 

 ,("Next")> which will be found in a subsequent 

 list. Names signifying numbers ranging from 

 eighty to a thousand, and upward, are names of 

 felicitation. They express the wish that the 

 bearer may live to a prodigious age, or that her 

 posterity may flourish through the centuries. 



NUMERALS AND WORDS RELATING TO NUMBER 



O-Man "Ten Thousand." 



1 Such a name may record the fact that the girl was a first-born 

 child, and the father fifty years old at the time of her birth. 



2 The "O" before this trisyllable seems contrary to rule; but 

 Hyaku Is pronounced almost like a dissyllable. 



