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Ubasute no tsuki (The Moon of Ubasute), one of the 100 works in the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi. Ubasute (姥捨て, "abandoning an old woman", also called obasute and sometimes oyasute 親捨て "abandoning a parent") is a mythical practice of senicide in Japan, whereby an infirm or elderly relative was carried to a mountain, or some other remote, desolate ...
The Japanese language makes use of a system of honorific speech, called keishō (敬称), which includes honorific suffixes and prefixes when talking to, or referring to others in a conversation. Suffixes are often gender-specific at the end of names, while prefixes are attached to the beginning of many nouns.
In Turkish and other Turkic languages such as Crimean Tatar, Nene means "grandmother", and is also generally used as a nickname for elderly women. In Japanese , Nene is exclusively a feminine given name.
Obasan and obāsan are Japanese words meaning 'older woman' and 'grandmother' respectively, sometimes found in English in anime and manga.They may also mean: Obasan, a novel by Joy Kogawa, published in 1981
Officially, among Japanese names there are 291,129 different Japanese surnames (姓, sei), [1] as determined by their kanji, although many of these are pronounced and romanized similarly. Conversely, some surnames written the same in kanji may also be pronounced differently. [ 2 ]
Emperor Antoku (安徳天皇, Antoku-tennō, 22 December 1178 – 25 April 1185) was the 81st emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.His reign spanned the years from 1180 through 1185. [1]
Hamako Mori (born 18 February 1930), [2] better known by her online alias Gamer Grandma, is a Japanese video game YouTuber and esports player. She is known to have been playing video and esports games since 1981. [3] In May 2020, she was declared as the oldest ever gaming YouTuber in the world at the age of 90.
Sweet Bean (Japanese: あん, Hepburn: An) [1] [2] is a 2015 Japanese drama film directed by Naomi Kawase. It is the second film, after I Wish, to star real-life grandmother and granddaughter Kirin Kiki and Kyara Uchida. [3] The film was selected to open the Un Certain Regard section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.