What Japanese family names do you find cool ?

**AJBryant** · Sep 25, 2008, 01:35

This thread makes me cry.

**kireikoori** · Sep 25, 2008, 02:12

Originally Posted by AJBryant

This thread makes me cry.

Do go into more detail.

**ASHIKAGA** · Sep 26, 2008, 08:22

Originally Posted by AJBryant

This thread makes me cry.

OK, so you think it is sad because this is sort of like trying to come up with hot sounding Scandinavian names for the sexy young woman in your Swedish au pair fantasies? I fancy Anneliese and Annika myself. How about you?

While I am here, here is another Japanese sir name I find cool.

薬師丸　やくしまる　Yakushimaru

as in Hiroko Yakushimaru the actress/singer.

**bammbamm&pebbles** · Sep 26, 2008, 08:33

Originally Posted by ASHIKAGA

薬師丸　やくしまる　Yakushimaru

as in Hiroko Yakushimaru the actress/singer.

I adored her in the early 1980's breakout success debut yakuza comedy film ' Sailor Suit and Machine Gun ' ( セーラー服と機関銃 ).

**Chipi** · Sep 28, 2008, 06:35

Originally Posted by ASHIKAGA

OK, so you think it is sad because this is sort of like trying to come up with hot sounding Scandinavian names for the sexy young woman in your Swedish au pair fantasies? I fancy Anneliese and Annika myself. How about you?

Haha

This made me laugh. I think Malin is quite cool Swedish name as well ;)

..and as for the names. I gotta love Chikuhi

(all though I like the majority of Japanese family names...)

**Chirpy9** · Sep 29, 2008, 19:40

I like Yazawa.
She was my fav teacher in the uni. My Japanese at that time was so pathetic, she thought I'll not continue learning the language, but was pleasatly surprised when again I met her after almost 5 years and was speaking fluently.

Apart from this, I like Kimura, Nakamoto, Nakagawa, Tanaka.......

One of the intersting surnames that I came across was Mushiake.

**tamada** · Sep 25, 2008, 02:32

i like all this

thanks

**tada** · Sep 26, 2008, 01:23

Taniguchi for some reason is stuck in my head.

**Kirie_Maiden** · Oct 2, 2008, 22:21

I really like the name Yamamoto, but is it a common name? Like Shingo Yamamoto (from Sasuke) and my friend's Japanese teacher is Miss. Yamamoto.

**Azuma_Fujin** · Oct 11, 2008, 01:25

My last name Azuma (我妻) means "my wife" haha...and i love it! It sure beats my previous english last name. It seems to be pretty popular at the moment, i think there must be an anime either Azuma or kazuma or something like that...Oh, also some Japanese people when they look at the kanji think you pronounce it "wagazuma", but there is actually two ways, just mine is pronounced Azuma, thankfully.