FYI, I first encountered the name "Doumeki" with one of my students in Japan. She was kind of a terrible student, but pretty charismatic when she chatted with me between classes. When I first saw her name tag, I instantly memorized the name (which is unusual because I am awful with names and knew the actual names of perhaps 3 of my couple thousand students). In Japanese, it's spelled "百目鬼" which roughly translates to "100 eyed ogre". I thought that was just the coolest family name ever and it stuck with me.
In an unrelated thought, I've always wondered why native Americans often have their names translated to meaning, so they are all like "Sitting Bull" instead of Tatanka Iyotake or whatever, but Asian names which also have meaning never are translated. Kind of weird.
In an unrelated thought, I've always wondered why native Americans often have their names translated to meaning, so they are all like "Sitting Bull" instead of Tatanka Iyotake or whatever, but Asian names which also have meaning never are translated. Kind of weird.