1, indicating that this person has a lower-middle aristocratic family or samurai lineage. Because of introduction, assistance, assistance, protection, etc. It is the name of various second officials or judges in ancient Japan. Due to other people's honorifics, the official position has changed from a nickname to a formal title. Similar to Sima in China's surname, it comes from official fu. Therefore, sons of such families are often named in this way.
2. The young name or proper name of the eldest son Because ancient Japan was a hereditary official system, the eldest son was most likely to hold the position of father, so the middle name was often used by the eldest son.
3. It refers to the special relationship: during the Edo shogunate era, many businessmen and ordinary people took the name X-helper because of inheritance. This kind of inheritance is mostly son-in-law, adopted son and mentor. For example, someone may be called Taro when he was a child, and later he was arranged to be the son-in-law of the Suzuki family, so he will change his name to Suzunosuke. ?
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In ancient Japan, there were no surnames, only first names. Later, with the development of production, especially after entering the class society, surnames and surnames first appeared in the ruling class. Scholar is a political organization in ancient Japan. Every surname has its own name, which is called "name". Surnames are named according to the positions held by clans in the imperial court or the places where clans live and rule. There are dozens of surnames, which are similar to titles and are hereditary. There is an obvious hierarchical relationship between surnames.
Surnames and surnames are symbols of power, so putting these titles before surnames was the privilege of the Japanese ruling class at that time. And the broad masses of working people never have surnames, only first names. After the Meiji Restoration (1868), Japan abolished the feudal hierarchy, and in the third year of Meiji (1870), the Japanese government decided; All ordinary people can take their own names. However, many people are unwilling to give their surnames because of their long-established habits. Therefore, in the eighth year of Meiji (1875), the Japanese government once again stipulated that all citizens must have surnames. Since then, every household in Japan has a surname, with sons taking their fathers' surnames and wives taking their husbands' surnames, which have been passed down from generation to generation and continue to this day.
Reference source Baidu Encyclopedia-Japanese name
Baidu Encyclopedia-Japanese Names