What does the Japanese female name 'Ginnojou' mean?

Question

I understand 'gin' is 'silver' and 'no' is possessive, but do either of those apply to this name? Both Google and various translation sites have failed me.

Answer 1

not for female but male

shows name of the post (assistant, officer who examin official papers)

for a name of the kabuki actor (other traditional actors as well)

male name (about 400 yrs ago, i think dont have much meaning, souds big and high-sounding name)

Answer 2

This is only used Japanese traditional "Art" called "Kabuki".

"Ginnojou" is a male name in old Japanese.

But, in the world of "kabuki" does not care the gender.

Answer 3

In Japanese, the meaning of a word is indicated by the kanji that are used to write it. Although some combinations of sounds are unique to only one meaning, in general　the language is full of homonyms. That is why Japanese people still use the Chinese-based writing system and haven't switched over to one of the Western alphabets.　Gin is almost certainly silver, and NO can function both as a possessive but you should know that it can replace any particle within a dependent clause. The hard thing to translate is the JOU because that can go with so many different kanji characters. But, I would say the meaning is almost certainly "Something of silver" with the something standing for the unknown meaning of the JOU character. You could probably also express it as "Silver something." There are just too many possibilities for the JOU.

Answer 4

What a rare name!  I did some searching online, and found a male actor (born 1962) with the name Yamazaki Ginnojou, though that's not his given name (it was Kouichi).

Then I found that the 9th son of Ieyoshi (12th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate) was called Ginnojou.  Probably not really female name then.

So I found that both people used the same Kanji, which are:

銀之丞

銀 = silver "gin"

之 = the possessive "no"

丞 = help "jou"

So literally it means Silver's Help, or Help of Silver.

Aha, how about: Silver Guidance.

Something along those lines.  Not all Japanese names make total sense =D  It's probably a really old name used to make the person sound cool.

Answer 5

Are you sure you found the name as female name?

Because that sounds like a man's name in Edo era(1600s~1860s).

Even though there are varieties of names, more so in the recent decades, Ginnojou hardly sounds like a name that actually exists now. Even as a man's name.

Maybe in ninja stories or anime character trying to be retro-hip or something....