_O-Ichi_ "One."
_O-San_ "Three."
_O-Mitsu_ "Three."
_O-Yotsu_ "Four."
_O-Roku_ "Six."
_O-Shichi_ "Seven."
_O-Hachi_ "Eight."
_O-Ju_ "Ten."
_O-Iso_ "Fifty."[65]
[65] Such a name may record the fact that the girl was a
first-born child, and the father fifty years old at
the time of her birth.
_O-Yaso_ "Eighty."
_O-Hyaku_ "Hundred."[66]
[66] The "O" before this trisyllable seems contrary to rule;
but _Hyaku_ is pronounced almost like a dissyllable.
_O-Yao_ "Eight Hundred."
_O-Sen_ "Thousand."
_O-Michi_ "Three Thousand."
_O-Man_ "Ten Thousand."
_O-Chiyo_ "Thousand Generations."
_Yachiyo_ "Eight Thousand Generations."
_O-Shige_ "Two-fold."
_O-Yae_ "Eight-fold."
_O-Kazu_ "Great Number."
_O-Mina_ "All."
_O-Han_ "Half."[67]
[67] "Better half?"--the reader may query. But I believe
that this name originated in the old custom of taking
a single character of the father's name--sometimes
also a character of the mother's name--to compose
the child's name with. Perhaps in this case the name
of the girl's father was HANyemon, or HANbei.
_O-Iku_ "How Many?" (?)