Friday, November 26, 2010

More than a name.

I mentioned that I recently played at Kumamoto Castle with my friends and co-members of our recently formed trio Izumi Fujikawa and Yumiko Minoda.  Our trio doesn't have a name and we all feel that it would be good to have one, so I've been knocking around some ideas and came up with this:  I like the Japanese word hibiki (響) which means echo.  It in itself would be good but I thought of alternate kanji that might add more meaning to the name and came up with this: hi (斐) which means beautiful or patterned, bi (侎) which means to soothe, and ki (気 ) which means spirit.  Therefore HIBIKI ( 斐 侎 気 )or beautiful soothing spirit.  What do you think?
Posted by Jeff Cairns at 2:07 PM

2 comments:

  1. Craig RobertsNovember 26, 2010 at 2:20 PM

    I like it, Jeff. "気" could also be translated "soul" or in a sense "essence," and also carries the meaning of feelings or intentions, all of which could add depth to the name of your group.

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  2. Jeff CairnsNovember 26, 2010 at 10:40 PM

    Hi Craig, nice to hear from you and thank you for the added info. You're right, it just adds.
    cheers

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