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<p>Common given names in Japan have a certain format since probably the Showa period.</p>

<p>Old fashioned male names go something like "<em>something</em>-<em>number</em>-郎". Kinkaku and Kinkaku's actual names are 呉二郎 and 呉三郎 (Kunijirou and Kunisaburo).</p>

<p>Female names usually go something like "<em>something</em>-子" or "<em>something</em>-美".</p>

<p>Kaisei breaks from this traditional name sense, which is why her name is un-tanuki-like.</p>

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<p>At the start of <em>Episode 9 - Daughter of the Ebisugawas: Kaisei</em> when Yasaburō is having a monologue about how he was arranged to marry Kaisei before her father called off the marriage after Yasaburō's father died, he says,</p>

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  <p>By the way, my cousin's weird, un-tanuki-like name "Kaisei", was something my dad came up with.</p>
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<p>What makes Kaisei's name "un-tanuki-like" in comparison to the other characters?</p>

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Note Kaisei is written (per [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eccentric_Family#Ebisugawa_family) and the family tree in the show given below) 海星, meaning “starfish”, not a common name in any species. (The kanji are “sea (umi)” and “star (hoshi)”.)
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What is so "un-tanuki-like" about the name Kaisei?
# What is so "un-tanuki-like" about the name Kaisei?
Posted by: username_0 on 2016-01-26
At the start of *Episode 9 - Daughter of the Ebisugawas: Kaisei* when Yasaburō is having a monologue about how he was arranged to marry Kaisei before her father called off the marriage after Yasaburō's father died, he says,

> By the way, my cousin's weird, un-tanuki-like name "Kaisei", was something my dad came up with.

What makes Kaisei's name "un-tanuki-like" in comparison to the other characters?
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> **username_1**: Note Kaisei is written (per [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eccentric_Family#Ebisugawa_family) and the family tree in the show given below) 海星, meaning “starfish”, not a common name in any species. (The kanji are “sea (umi)” and “star (hoshi)”.)  
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### Answer by username_2 on 2016-11-13. Score: 2
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Common given names in Japan have a certain format since probably the Showa period.

Old fashioned male names go something like "*something*-*number*-郎". Kinkaku and Kinkaku's actual names are 呉二郎 and 呉三郎 (Kunijirou and Kunisaburo).

Female names usually go something like "*something*-子" or "*something*-美".

Kaisei breaks from this traditional name sense, which is why her name is un-tanuki-like.
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