What's in a name?

Can anyone help me (and it might prove to be a long and tedious
inquiry) with naming conventions in the Sengoku Jidai?

I have a historical fiction piece I'm finishing and want to
understand how the names work.

I'll present some queries as a guide:
Toda no danjo Shohitsu Yasumitsu [briefly the father-in-law to
Tokugawa Ieyasu] - Toda is the family name, Yasumitsu is the
personal name, no danjo I believe to be a title(?) but what of
Shohitsu?

What is the function of 'middle' names?

From the previous, many such names have a '-aemon' suffix,
what does this signify?

Does the hyphenation of a name signify anything, if not, why
are some names hyphenated?

Thomas

The only thing we know about the warring States Period is that's when Inu
Yasha occurs. Gomen-K&K

>From: "Thomas Davidson" <tom.davidson@...>
>Reply-To: samuraihistory@yahoogroups.com
>To: samuraihistory@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [samuraihistory] What's in a name?
>Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 11:32:41 -0000
>
>Can anyone help me (and it might prove to be a long and tedious
>inquiry) with naming conventions in the Sengoku Jidai?
>
>I have a historical fiction piece I'm finishing and want to
>understand how the names work.
>
>I'll present some queries as a guide:
>Toda no danjo Shohitsu Yasumitsu [briefly the father-in-law to
>Tokugawa Ieyasu] - Toda is the family name, Yasumitsu is the
>personal name, no danjo I believe to be a title(?) but what of
>Shohitsu?
>
>What is the function of 'middle' names?
>
>From the previous, many such names have a '-aemon' suffix,
>what does this signify?
>
>Does the hyphenation of a name signify anything, if not, why
>are some names hyphenated?
>
>Thomas
>
>

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Tony's got a great explanation on
www.sengokudaimyo.com

Nate

--- Thomas Davidson <tom.davidson@...> wrote:

> Can anyone help me (and it might prove to be a long
> and tedious
> inquiry) with naming conventions in the Sengoku
> Jidai?
>
> I have a historical fiction piece I'm finishing and
> want to
> understand how the names work.
>
> I'll present some queries as a guide:
> Toda no danjo Shohitsu Yasumitsu [briefly the
> father-in-law to
> Tokugawa Ieyasu] - Toda is the family name,
> Yasumitsu is the
> personal name, no danjo I believe to be a title(?)
> but what of
> Shohitsu?
>
> What is the function of 'middle' names?
>
> From the previous, many such names have a '-aemon'
> suffix,
> what does this signify?
>
> Does the hyphenation of a name signify anything, if
> not, why
> are some names hyphenated?
>
> Thomas
>
>
>

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Inu Yasha is set in Sengoku Jidai?! I didn't know that! Thanx! 8-D It's
my favourite Adult Swim show on Cartoon Network! 8-D

L8r
Tim


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Thanks Nate for the link, and congrats Tony for all the effort!

Everything to be read - but at first glance I'm still unsure of 'no
danjo' - but will research further.

Thomas

Check out the IY shrine site sometime.-K&K

>From: Eponymous13@...
>Reply-To: samuraihistory@yahoogroups.com
>To: samuraihistory@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [samuraihistory] What's in a name?
>Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 06:49:56 EST
>
>Inu Yasha is set in Sengoku Jidai?! I didn't know that! Thanx! 8-D It's
>my favourite Adult Swim show on Cartoon Network! 8-D
>
>L8r
>Tim
>
>
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>

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At 02:55 AM 3/4/04, you wrote:

>Can anyone help me (and it might prove to be a long and tedious inquiry)
>with naming conventions in the Sengoku Jidai?

Try this as a primer. It's from our book "Sengoku Revised Edition" (ISBN
), co-authored by Tony Bryant and yours truly. Just FYI.

http://www.sengoku.com/files/nametitl.pdf



Mark Arsenault
Sengoku List Taisho
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http://www.sengoku.com - The official site of the Sengoku RPG!

Thanks Mark, with that and Anthony's 'sengokudaimyo' stuff, I
have enough to keep me 'safe' I think!

I still can't trace 'no danjo' however (unless I'm being particularly
thick). It's not crucial, I was just wondering.

Thomas

Eponymous13@... wrote:

> Inu Yasha is set in Sengoku Jidai?! I didn't know that! Thanx! 8-D It's
> my favourite Adult Swim show on Cartoon Network! 8-D

I believe its subtitle is "sengoku jidai otogizôshi" -- a tale of the sengoku
period.


Tony

thanx again, tony! :-D

Tim


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