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Gender Masculine
Usage Japanese (Archaic)
Scripts 伊右衛門, 猪右衛門(Japanese Kanji) 伊右エ門, 猪右エ門(Kanji/Katakana) いえもん(Japanese Hiragana) イエモン(Japanese Katakana)
Other Forms FormsIyemon
Meaning & History
From 右衛門/右エ門 (emon), shortened from Uemon, prefixed with an i kanji, like 伊 or 猪, the latter referring to a wild boar.One fictional bearer of this name is Iemon Tamiya (or Tamiya Iemon) (田宮 伊右衛門), the main character in the horror story Yotsuya Kaidan (四谷怪談) and its subsequent adaptations.