Japanese Female Names 135 



O-Cbiyo . . . . " Thousand Generations." 

 Yachiyo . . . . " Eight Thousand Generations." 



O-Sbtge .... "Two-fold." 



O-Yat "Eight-fold." 



O-Ka^u . . . . " Great Number." 



O-Mina .... "All." 



O-Han " Half." * 



O-Iku " How Many ?"(?) 



OTHER NAMES RELATING TO ORDER OF BIRTH 



O-Hatsu .... "Beginning," first-born. 



O-Tsugi .... "Next," the second. 



ONaka .... "Midmost." j 



O-Tome .... "Stop," cease. 



O-Sue "Last." 



Some few of the next group of names are prob 

 ably aesthetic. But such names are sometimes 

 given only in reference to the time or season of 

 birth; and the reason for any particular yobina 

 of this class is difficult to decide without personal 

 inquiry. 



NAMES RELATING TO TIME AND SEASON 



O-Haru .... "Spring." 

 O-Natsu . " Summer." 



1 " Better half? " the reader may query. But I believe that this 

 name originated in the old custom of taking a single character of the 

 father's name sometimes also a character of the mother's name to 

 compose the child's name with. Perhaps in this case the name of the 

 girl's father was HANyemon, or HANbei. 



