一 ICHI = 1. There's a complicated way to write the numeral "1", because some of the numbers are easy to forge on checks; one may as well say that ICHI looks a lot like Taiwan. Taiwan's tai is a word for a radio station or a television station, or a stage, kind of being up at bat or in the on-deck circle. "Tai" is also used in "Typhoon". One thinks of broadcast stations producing an 'electronic typhoon'. It's a little different from the "Tai" of "Thailand", a word which means "free" or "super great". The Tai of Thailand also looks a lot like a word for "total disaster", like getting a massive sunburn on a 3-day boating weekend. Of course, in English, we have words like "mouse" which look like "house", so don't think it's too confusing, because it's not.
朗 RO = Bright spot; silvery and sonorous. (Chinese people use it as the second word in "Iran". Iran and Iraq have the same first word and are easily distinguished by their second syllables. The R/L comes into play; in Japanese this is "RO" and in Chinese it is "LANG", these are normal levels of transliteration.)
鈴 SUZU = Bright, cute, tintinnabulation, the sound of a bell, like at Christmas.
木 KI There's only one way to analyze this word....maybe Ted Williams could have used this in his name. It has an all-American feel to it, like a clean prarie wind, like a California sunshine day, like Flash Thompson, Spiderman's high school nemesis.
As far as the word "Suzuki" is concerned, maybe "cuteness has intrinsic limits."
The word "Ichiro Suzuki" reminds me of leaving the main part of San Francisco and taking a long bus ride out to the (relatively empty) beaches; in traveling through this in-city suburban zone, one passes through several low key surf towns which create the culture of the area. There are family neighborhood restaurants and Japanese book stores, and endless vistas of those identical northern California houses with no cars in front during the day, like a West Coast New Rochelle. It has an amazing feel of lots of new arrivals to North America, an epic feeling, like the days of Sun Yat Sen or of science fiction, or of (Little House on the Prarie x Star Trek). The place has a clean, pleasing zephryistic atmosphere, kites and surfboards and ramen for breakfast. Like Jack Kerouac and cheap Aiwa imports. It's great.
I've listened to a lot of J Church, a band which takes its name from one of the buses or trams which travel from Market Street to the coast, I feel as though I know it; it's more or less exactly like Cape Cod or Narragansett/Greenwich.
"Ventura Highway in the sunshine....the Iranian reindeer vs the giant Yokohaman"
Aichi Prefecture symbol (Ichiro) (black), Yokohama City symbol (Daisuke) (red)
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