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Name Ukon
Gender Masculine & Feminine
Usage Japanese
Scripts 右近 (kanji), うこん (hiragana), ウコン (katakana)
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Meaning & History
This name is used as 右近 with 右 (u, yuu, migi) meaning "right" and 近 (kin, kon, chika.i) meaning "akin, early, near, tantamount."One (male) bearer of this name was Ukon Takayama (or Takayama Ukon if surname is used first) (高山 右近) (1552-1615), also known as Dom Justo Takayama, Iustus Takayama Ukon, Hikogorō (彦五郎 - his childhood name) and Shigetomo (重友 - name given after the coming-of-age ceremony), a Sengoku period kirishitan (キリシタン/Christian) samurai and daimyō.
One (female) bearer of this name was the Heian period poet Ukon (右近), who was included in the list of Thirty-six Female Poetry Immortals in Japan.
One (female) bearer of this name was the Heian period poet Ukon (右近), who was included in the list of Thirty-six Female Poetry Immortals in Japan.