Hanako (given name)

Hanako is a female Japanese given name. The name can have different meanings, one of them being 花子, meaning "flower girl."

It is often seen as an archetypal name for females.^[1]

華子 (華 is a kanji of many uses - 'splendor', 'flower', 'petal', 'shine', 'luster', 'ostentatious', 'showy'. 'ko' is the second kanji, meaning 'girl (child)').

People

• Hanako Tsugaru, later Hanako, Princess Hitachi of Japan
• Hanako Oshima (born 1973), Japanese musician
• Hanako Oku (born 1978), Japanese singer/songwriter
• Hisa Ōta (1868–1945), Japanese actress whose stage name was "Hanako"

Characters

• Hanako (ハナコ ) or Delia Ketchum, the mother of protagonist Ash Ketchum in the Pokémon anime
• Hanako Ikezawa, a heroine with burn scars on her body from the visual novel Katawa Shoujo.

References

1. Takeda Hiroko (2004) "The Political Economy of Reproduction in Japan", ISBN 0-415-32190-5