Hanako (given name)
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Hanako is a female Japanese given name. The name can have different meanings, one of them being 花子, "flower girl."
It is often seen as an archetypal name for girls.[1]
華子 (華 is a kanji of many uses - 'splendor', 'flower', 'petal', 'shine', 'luster', 'ostentatious', 'showy'. 'ko' is the second kanji, meaning 'girl (child)').
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[edit] People
- Hanako Tsugaru, later Princess Hitachi of Japan
- Hanako Yamada, Japanese comedian
- Hanako Oshima (born 1973), Japanese musician
- Hanako Oku (born 1978), Japanese singer/songwriter
- Hisa Ōta (1868–1945), Japanese actress whose stage name was "Hanako"
[edit] Characters
- Miss Hanako of the Toilet (トイレの花子さん Toire no Hanako-san), a ghost that haunts school bathrooms, according to Japanese urban legend (Gakkō no Kaidan)
- Hanako (ハナコ ) or Delia Ketchum, the mother of protagonist Ash Ketchum in the Pokémon anime
- Hanako Ikezawa, a heroine with facial scarring on her body from Katawa Shoujo Visual Novel that can be romanced.
[edit] References
- ^ Takeda Hiroko (2004) "The Political Economy of Reproduction in Japan", ISBN 0415321905
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