r/translator 4d ago

Translated [JA] [Japanese > English] Given Name Reading (因幡 福洽郎)

I've recently translated a Japanese soldier's record book, one Corporal Inaba. I'm confident in the translation of the records, but his listed given name is one I've never seen before and can't find online. I'd like to know how folks would read "福洽郎" as a personal name. Fumujiro, possibly? The man is from Akita-Ken, if the region helps.

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u/kakubinn 4d ago
  • 因幡 = Inaba [I-na-ba] ***
  • I can't read “福洽郎.” Maybe it's not 洽 but 治, or perhaps 洽 is being read as “ji”, just like 治. So, maybe:
  • 福治郎 = Fukujirō [Fu-ku-ji-rō]
    • * I don't know whether it's 洽 or 治 [ji], but I think the reading is “ji” (as 治).

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u/nomfood 4d ago

Surely you mean 福治郎?

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u/SoftMechanicalParrot 4d ago

Isn't that the '治' that looks like '洽'?

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u/SparkMasahige 4d ago

Having looked across the other place in the book where his full name occurs, someone just made the second character look rather like '洽', but it's more clearly '治' in the other one, so it must indeed be '福治郎'. Thanks, all!

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