Hanako (given name)
| Pronunciation | han-nah-koh |
|---|---|
| Gender | Female |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Japanese |
| Meaning | Different meanings depending on the kanji used |
| Region of origin | Japan |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Hana Kanako |
Hanako is a female Japanese given name. The name can have different meanings, one of them being 花子, meaning "flower girl", and another being 華子 (華 is a kanji of many uses - 'splendor', 'flower', 'petal', 'shine', 'luster', 'ostentatious', 'showy'. 'ko' is the second kanji, meaning 'girl (child)').
It is often seen as an archetypal name for females.[1] It was a popular name for female elephants in Japan imported in the late 1940s and early 1950s; the first part of the name, Hana, could be taken as reference to an elephant's nose.[2]
People
[edit]- Hanako Tsugaru, later Hanako, Princess Hitachi of Japan
- Hanako Footman (born 1994), British-Japanese actress
- Hanako Honda (1909–1968), Japanese politician
- Hanako Miura (born 1975), Japanese gymnast
- Hanako Jimi, Japanese politician
- Hanako Muraoka (1893–1968), Japanese novelist and translator
- Hanako Nakamori (Hanako Kobayashi, born 1988), Japanese professional wrestler
- Hanako Oku (born 1978), Japanese singer/songwriter
- Hanako Oshima (born 1973), Japanese musician
- Hanako Takigawa (born 1988), Japanese actress
- Hisa Ōta (1868–1945), Japanese actress whose stage name was "Hanako"
Fictional characters
[edit]- Hanako (ハナコ) or Delia Ketchum, the mother of protagonist Ash Ketchum (Satoshi) in the Pokémon anime
- Hanako, a character of the manga Hanako and the Terror of Allegory
- Hanako, a character of the drama Hanako to Anne
- Hanako Ikezawa, a heroine with debilitating social anxiety derived from her burn scars from the visual novel Katawa Shoujo
- Hanako Ichiro, a Shiba Inu owned by Inuyashiki Ichiro, from the manga Inuyashiki by Hiroya Oku
- Hanako-kun (ghost), formerly Amane Yugi, the title character from the anime and manga series Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun
- Hanako Ohmuro, a character from YuruYuri
- Hanako-san, yokai in the girl toilet in Friday the 13th and Tuesday the 13th
- Hanako Sonoyama, a character from Little Battlers Experience WARS
- Hanako Urawa, a character from Blue Archive
- Hanako Yamada, a character of the video game Yandere Simulator
- Hanako Yumadagi, a character of anime series Ongaku Shoujo
Other
[edit]- Hanako (elephant) (1947-2016), an elephant who lived in Japan
- Hanako (fish), a fish which lived to be more than 200 years old
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Takeda, Hiroko (2004-09-23). The Political Economy of Reproduction in Japan: Between Nation-State and Everyday Life. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415321907.
- ^ Itoh, Mayumi (2010), "Zoos in Japan in the Early Postwar Years", Japanese Wartime Zoo Policy, New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, p. 167, doi:10.1057/9780230117440_9, ISBN 978-1-349-29183-0, retrieved 2025-02-22
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