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Japanese Garb |
 | | A few famous examples of children’s names should suffice: Benkei was Oniwakamaru (= dear young goblin), and Yoshitsune was Ushiwakamaru (= dear young ox). |
| | Men interested in clerical personae or the Buddhist militant clergy should note that that up until the 1500s, monks generally took as their “given name” the region they were born, and added to it the suffix ~bô (= or monk), thereby very Buddhistically severing their ties; they no longer had names. |
| | Musashibô Benkei was such; he came from the Musashi region (as did a certain famous swordsman several centuries later) and his chosen name was Benkei. |
| www.sengokudaimyo.com /miscellany/names.html (3574 words) |
