There are Ueno, Tanaka, Shui Yuan, Hanoi, Shangyuan, Shiyuan, Luqian, Omiya, Yoshiokaya, Sanhewu, and Fat House with place names as surnames, and there are Weixiang and Weiyou with occupations as surnames. Some people use the names of ancient warriors as surnames, such as Sakai, Bendo and Shangshan, all of which are the names of ancient warriors. Some people are afraid of being punished by the government, and "don't choose their surnames", taking fish, vegetables, temples and occupations as surnames. Suzuki was originally a symbol held by the god officer, and it also became a surname. A little cultural choice of good words such as longevity, longevity, Millennium, loose bamboo, Asahi as surnames. Longevity symbols such as pine, crane and turtle have also become surnames, and hundreds, thousands and thousands have also become surnames. Some people really can't think of a good way, so they have to deal with one casually, such as "my grandson", "my son", "Dodomeki", "pig hand", "dog breeding", "ghost head" and "eggplant Sichuan", and some let officials come up with one at will.
in p>1898, the government enacted the household registration law, so that the surname of each household was fixed and could not be changed at will. Because the Japanese surname comes suddenly and specially, its connotation is also different. Most surnames in the world are related by blood, but Japanese surnames rarely have this meaning. Those who have a surname are not necessarily related by blood, but those who don't have a surname may be uncles and grandfathers.
Most Japanese surnames consist of two Chinese characters, ranging from one character to nine characters at most. Such as Beichi, Shore, Tanaka, Suzuki, Utsunomiya, saionji, Chokushikawara and Kadenokoji. Therefore, in order to distinguish which is the surname and which is the first name, on the occasion of formal signature, a word should be left in the middle of the surname and the first name. For example, Kiyoshi Inoue should be written as "Kiyoshi Inoue", "Third-order Tangjin", "Yagi Xiahong" and "Yagi Xiahong". There are hundreds of thousands of surnames in Japan, and the population of Japan is only over 1 million, with an average of only a few hundred surnames. There are more than 4 most common ones, among which Suzuki, Sato, Tanaka, Yamamoto, Watanabe, Gao Qiao, Kobayashi, Nakamura, Ito and Saito account for 1% of the total population, with more than 1 million.
There are so many surnames in Japan, but the emperor has no surnames. Emperor Akihito and Emperor Hirohito could not name their surnames. The Japanese believe that the emperor is not a person, but a god, and the god has no surname. The emperor has no surname, so does the prince, grandson, daughter, brother and aunt. Generally, women change their husband's surname after marriage, but civilians still use their maiden's surname when they marry the royal family. Wen Ren's wife, Chuan Dao Kiko, surnamed Chuan Dao, is her maiden name.
Japanese people have strange surnames and names, and most Japanese men's first names end with words such as lang, fu, Xiong, male, etc. to show their power, handsomeness and faithfulness. Moreover, there are many signs of ranking. The eldest son is called Taro, the second son is called Jiro and Jiro, and the 11th one is called Yuichiro. Some people have removed the word "Lang" directly, which means "Tai", "Yi", "Di", "Zhi" means two, "Xuan" and "Zang" means three, and "Fu" means the younger son. The eldest daughter is called eldest son, the second daughter is called neutron, and the third daughter is called third son. Koichi Kobayashi must be the eldest son and Torajiro must be the second. In the past, Japanese men's names were often added with "Bing Wei", "Saemon" and "Uemon", which were changed from military positions, and some were used to show the spirit of martial arts. Most Japanese women's names end with "Zi", "Mei", "Jiang", "Dai" and "Zhi". For example, Kawashima Yoshiko, Yamada Yumi, Daguan Xingjiang, Yuno Chiyo and Ohara Fujizhi sound elegant and soft. Nowadays, about 9% of young women are named after "Zi". It is customary for a woman to change her husband's surname after marriage. Now, more and more women are opposed to the husband and wife sharing the same surname, and they have also set up a "meeting against the husband and wife sharing the same surname", arguing that they should still use their own surnames after marriage. Using numbers in names is another feature of Japanese names. There are people named Yidan, Erjing, Miki, and Shikjima blindly; there are people named Hexao, Qitiao, Eight Horses, Nine Ghosts and Ten Stones; there are people named Forty-five, Isuzu, Hundred Dollars, Six Hundred Fields, Thousand Households; and there are even people named EMI and Long Live. It is more common to use numbers in names to indicate rankings, but some also indicate the time of birth. Isoroku Yamamoto, for example, was born because his father was 56 years old.