{"product_id":"shadowings-von-lafcadio-hearn","title":"Shadowings","description":"\u003cp\u003eExcerpt: ...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-Ichi \"One.\" O-San \"Three.\" O-Mitsu \"Three.\" O-Yotsu \"Four.\" O-Roku \"Six.\" O-Shichi \"Seven.\" O-Hachi \"Eight.\" O-Ju \"Ten.\" O-Iso \"Fifty.\" 65 65 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. O-Yaso \"Eighty.\" O-Hyaku \"Hundred.\" 66 66 The \"O\" before this trisyllable seems contrary to rule; but Hyaku is pronounced almost like a dissyllable. O-Yao \"Eight Hundred.\" O-Sen \"Thousand.\" O-Michi \"Three Thousand.\" O-Man \"Ten Thousand.\" Pg 135 O-Chiyo \"Thousand Generations.\" Yachiyo \"Eight Thousand Generations.\" O-Shigé \"Two-fold.\" O-Yaë \"Eight-fold.\" O-Kazu \"Great Number.\" O-Mina \"All.\" O-Han \"Half.\" 67 67 \"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 Han yémon, or Han bei. O-Iku \"How Many?\"(?) OTHER NAMES RELATING TO ORDER OF BIRTH O-Hatsu \"Beginning,\"-first-born. O-Tsugi \"Next,\"-the second. O-Naka \"Midmost.\" O-Tomé \"Stop,\"-cease. O-Sué \"Last.\" Some few of the next group of names are probably æsthetic. 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.\" Pg 136 O-Aki \"Autumn.\" O-Fuyu \"Winter.\" O-Asa \"Morning.\" O-Cho \"Dawn.\" O-Yoi \"Evening.\" O-Sayo \"Night.\"...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9780217555388\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9780217555388","offer_id":40741895209053,"sku":"9780217555388","price":18.72,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/e1ef563a-4189-49d5-b9cc-9cb76e8b51b2.jpg?v=1774414931","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/shadowings-von-lafcadio-hearn","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}