Gender Masculine
Usage Japanese (Archaic)
Scripts 新左衛門, etc.(Japanese Kanji) 新左エ門(Kanji/Katakana) しんざえもん(Japanese Hiragana) シンザエモン(Japanese Katakana)
Meaning & History
From Saemon, voiced via rendaku, prefixed with a shin kanji, like 新 meaning "new."One fictional bearer of this name is Shinzaemon Shimada (島田 新左衛門), the main character from the jidaigeki film 13 Assassins.