It is said that the Japanese surname is based on the birthplace of their ancestors, right?

One hundred and twenty years ago, specifically, before the eighth year of Meiji in Japan (1875), the Japanese did not have their own names as they do now. At that time, except for the privileged classes such as nobles, warriors and doctors, farmers, businessmen and ordinary artists all had no surnames, and surnames were the privilege of a few people at that time. Toyotomi Hideyoshi, famous in Japanese history, had only the surname Tokichiro before becoming a samurai, but only the surname Muxia after becoming a samurai.

In the eighth year of Meiji, Japan promulgated the order that Miao characters must be called, requiring everyone to have their own surname. Suddenly, there was an upsurge of taking surnames all over Japan. At that time, the population had grown to a considerable extent, and everyone wanted to have a distinctive surname, so Japanese surnames greatly increased and varied.

There is another reason for the increase in surnames. Unlike China and Koreans who also use Chinese characters, Japanese people do not use the same paternal surname for generations, and a large proportion of Japanese people do not use paternal surnames. The result, of course, is more and more surnames.

Japanese surnames are not only numerous, but also complicated in pronunciation and Chinese characters. There are several or even a dozen Chinese characters in homophone surnames, and the same Chinese character will have several pronunciations.

For example, ささき can be pronounced as the following surnames-Sasaki, Sasaki, Sasaki, Sasaki, Mausoleum, Que and so on.

The Japanese surnamed ごとぅ can write the following in Chinese characters: Goto, Goto, Goto, Wu Tong, Wu Tong, Jiangteng, Tauren, Wudao, Kindness and so on.

That's the Japanese surname. Some names written in Chinese characters don't know how to read in complicated days, and they don't know how to write Chinese characters when they hear names. No wonder a survey shows that the Japanese exchange as many as 40 million business cards a day, which means that 23 1 group people exchange business cards every second. In Japan, it is very impolite to call each other by the wrong name. Therefore, in order to prevent the other party from mispronouncing their names, most Japanese people will indicate the pronunciation of Japanese next to the names written in Chinese characters.

The most common Japanese surname is Sato.

It is said that no matter in the school classroom or in a small company, if someone goes to find a person named "Sato", they are likely to see several Satos coming out together. There is a joke that if a Grenade is thrown at a crowded crowd during the rush hour in Japan, ten people will be killed, nine of whom are called Sato.

According to a survey conducted by a Japanese institution, the top ten most used surnames are:

First, Sato (? . ? )。 Second, Suzuki (Bao Naimei. Actor). Third, Gao Qiao (cartoonist studying in the United States). Four. Ito (? . ? )。 Watanabe (Junyi. Writer). Qi Teng (Yi Long. Unknown creatures in the backyard). Tanaka (Fang Shu. Writer). Kobayashi (Hiroichi. Go player). Nine, Sasaki (Kotaro swordsman). Ten, Yamamoto (56. First-class war criminals). (Japanese characters and occupations familiar to everyone are in brackets. The question mark is that my level is limited and I can't think of a more suitable person at the moment. )

You must have noticed that three of the top ten surnames have the word "rattan". Japanese surnames with the word "Teng" include Kato, Kudo, Goto, Goto and Naito. Why are there so many surnames with the word "rattan"?

It is said that 1500 years ago, there was a family named Fujiwara in Japan. This family has been very snobbish for a long time, so many families want to live as long as Fujiwara.

In the eighth year of Meiji, people who had never had a surname in their lives wanted to get some auspicious flavor of the word "Fujita" when taking a surname, so Fujita, Fujimoto, Fujii, Fujiyama, Fujikawa, Fujita and so on! (joke) "and so on the surname was born. From here, we can also see one of the ways of thinking when the Japanese first chose their surnames.

Japanese surnames can be roughly divided into the following five types:

First, the type of place names.

This kind of surname is the largest in Japan, and place names account for more than 80% of all surnames in Japan, generally based on the geographical location of the place of residence. Such as Ueno, Tanaka, Hanoi, Uehara, Chaihara and Lu Qian. It is said that there are as many people named Tanaka as1500,000, most of whom are from Kyushu. It is said that people who planted rice at that time lived in huts in rice fields, so they took Tanaka as their surname.

Second, the font size

Businessmen who open rice shops take Miwu as their surname, people who open oil mills take delicious food as their surname, those who engage in romantic places are called "prostitutes", and those who raise pigs are called "pig heads" and "pig rice". In addition, such surnames include "I have no" and "Wu Zhi".

Third, the collocation of place names and font sizes.

There are Grand Palace, Yoshiokaya, Three Rivers House and Fat House.

Fourth, professional.

"Hattori", "Forging" and "Furui Pill" are not difficult to know the occupations of their ancestors from these surnames. "Hattori" refers to the weaver, who was originally the minister of clothing and weaving, and later gradually evolved into the word "Hattori" (so Shimada Hanzo, a famous Japanese ninja clothing department, is a weaver and a ninja? Or a ninja part-time weaver? )。 "Forging" refers to the blacksmith, and "Furui Pill" refers to the fish and firewood that make a living by fishing.

Fifth, digital type.

There are also many numbers in Japanese surnames. This kind of surnames can be divided into two categories. One category is formal numerical surnames, such as "one family", "one well", "one cow", "two people", "three spring", "four pines", "five colors", "six guards", "seven heavies" and "nine ghosts". The other category is "special numerical surnames", such as "one inch and six cents", "753 fields", "one foot and two inches", "December fields" and "123".

The field of Chinese pronunciation of digital surnames is very complicated, and "one household" has at least ぃさど (ichido), ぃさのぇ (ichinoe) and ぃさのへ (ichinohe