Author:Svitlana Grytsenko, Issue: December 2003, Topic: Maps

This article was made for foreigners to have a better understanding of the name of their township in Tsukuba. If your place is not on this list, you can try to find its meaning in the dictionary. A possible way to do it is to find on a map of Tsukuba the name of your place and a kanji for it and look in the dictionary for the meaning of a kanji. I used "The Kanji Dictionary" by Mark Spahn and Wolfgang Hadamitzky (you can find the information how to use it in October 2003 issue of Alien Times).

The letters in brackets are other pronunciations of the kanji, which can make your search in the dictionary easier or just help you not to be confused when you see the kanji for tree (KI) pronounced GI as in Teshirogi, for example. The possible meaning I give after explaining the kanji is my own understanding of their combinations. So, if you can make a better one - good for you!

AMAKUBO AMA - heavenly KU - long (time) BO (HO) - keep, preserve, maintain Possible meaning: keep long (time) heavenly	SENGEN SEN - thousand GEN - present, existing, actual Possible meaning: present thousand; existing thousand; actual thousand
AZUMA A (GO) - my, our, one's own ZUMA (tsuma) - wife Possible meaning: my wife, one's own wife	TAKEZONO TAKE - bamboo ZONO - garden Possible meaning: bamboo's garden
MATSUSHIRO MATSU - pine SHIRO - price; substitution; materials Possible meaning: pine's price; pine's substitution; pine's materials	TENNODAI TEN - sky, the heavens; heaven, nature, God OU - king DAI - stand, platform, base; tableland, heights; level, mark, (price/age) range; (counter for vehicles or machines) Possible meaning: platform of the king's heaven
NINOMIYA NI - two NO - hiragana in this case is equivalent of English "of" MIYA - palace; prince, princess Possible meaning: palace of two	TESHIROGI TE - hand SHIRO - price; substitution; materials GI (KI) - tree, wood Possible meaning: wooden hand
OHO OO - big, large, great HO - ear/head of grain Possible meaning: big ear; large head of grain	UMEZONO UME - Japanese plum/apricot (tree) ZONO - garden Possible meaning: a garden of Japanese plum; apricot's garden

See the maps section of the AT website for a list of area names in Tsukuba.

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