Nagako is an uncommon
Japanese given name
in modern times consist of a family name (surname) followed by a given name, in that order. Nevertheless, when a Japanese name is written in the Roman alphabet, ever since the Meiji era, the official policy has been to cater to Western expecta ...
for
females
Female (symbol: ♀) is the sex of an organism that produces the large non-motile ova (egg cells), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete during sexual reproduction.
A female has larger gametes than a male. Females a ...
. Although written romanized the same way, the
kanji
are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese ...
can be different. Notable people with the name include:
*, later
Empress Kōjun
, born , was a member of the Imperial House of Japan, the wife of Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) and the mother of Shigeko Higashikuni, Princess Sachiko Hisa-nomiya, Kazuko Takatsukasa, Atsuko Ikeda, the Emperor Emeritus Akihito, Prince Masahito ...
of
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
(香淳皇后)
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Nagako Konishi (born 1945), a
female composer
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Nagako Mori is a snowboarder from Chiba, Japan, specializing in halfpipe riding
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Fujiwara no Nagako Fujiwara no Nagako ( – after 1119) was a servant of two Japanese tennōs of the Heian period. She became famous as the author of a '' nikki bungaku''.
Career
She became famous under the two notnames of Sanuki Tenji (Court lady of the Sanuki Pr ...
was a servant of two Japanese tennōs
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Nabeshima Nagako was a feature of Japanese high society
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Nagako Nagaoka Nagako is an uncommon Japanese given name for females. Although written romanized the same way, the kanji can be different. Notable people with the name include:
*, later Empress Kōjun of Japan (香淳皇后)
* Nagako Konishi (born 1945), a fema ...
, Japanese religious leader
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Japanese feminine given names