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 | | Even names like Anthony, Charles, and Edmund have meanings; it is just that they are lost on most people who dont know the original languages of the names and their original forms. |
 | | This name was taken upon the genpuku (coming of age) ceremony, and was the one by which men were commonly known to their close friends and family members. |
 | | Names ending in ~suke or~nosuke (actually, either element was written with a variety of kanji), ~emon, or ~zaemon, though historical-sounding and aristocratic as they are, are in large part post-Period, as they came from a habit of naming people after titles (~suke was deputy governor, and ~emon was a guard title). |
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