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The surnames of some Japanese players
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ebillgo wrote:
Due to the quite special way that surnames were assigned in the past, Japanese surnames are generally easily understandable. In the Tromso Olympiad, the Japanese second board for the Open Section was Shinya Kojima . Kojima means "Little island".
The women's team consisted of Azumi Hashimoto( base of bridge ), Karen Hoshino ( star-field ), Anna Amamiya ( rain shrine ) , Emi Hasegawa ( long valley river ) and Hisako Wakabayashi ( young forest ).Amamiya has some religious connections and so does Hoshino.
I have also tried to find the meaning of the surnames of some Russian players but so far with very little success ( somehow due to my near-zero command of Russian.)
The only success so far is Karpov. It has an ancient Greek origin and is associated with fruit.
In addition, the meaning of American Japanese GM Hikaru Nakamura's surname is "village in the middle." Interestingly, Japan's highest rated active FIDE player has the same forename as Nakamura, but with a different surname, Oka. Oka can mean "cherry blossom" or "big house."
Due to the quite special way that surnames were assigned in the past, Japanese surnames are generally easily understandable. In the Tromso Olympiad, the Japanese second board for the Open Section was Shinya Kojima . Kojima means "Little island".
The women's team consisted of Azumi Hashimoto( base of bridge ), Karen Hoshino ( star-field ), Anna Amamiya ( rain shrine ) , Emi Hasegawa ( long valley river ) and Hisako Wakabayashi ( young forest ).Amamiya has some religious connections and so does Hoshino.
I have also tried to find the meaning of the surnames of some Russian players but so far with very little success ( somehow due to my near-zero command of Russian.)
The only success so far is Karpov. It has an ancient Greek origin and is associated with fruit.