gurdymonkey | Oh Yes, I did.

Original poster: "With all respect to Solveig Throndardottir, I do not for one moment believe that all women had names like "little white flower" I am looking for sites that have female or gender nutral names that can be documented."

Me, after Solveig recommended a book in Japanese, of course: "Flower" is a perfectly good name. Even my barbarian friends can usually remember and correctly pronounce "Hana."

That said, Solveig-sensei's book on names has all sorts of names and name elements in it (she said, pulling her copy out from under her desk), including "Wogusome" which dates from the Nara period, refers to feces and includes the notation "This kanji and the reading appearing in the example are definitely vulgar."

Does it help that said name was found by letting my copy of Name Construction in Mediaeval Japan fall open at random?

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I'm not sure what is going on with that person. I understand having a dislike for the way Solveig comes across, but when it comes to names, she really *does* know her stuff.

I think the OP wants internet sources and hasn't actually seen NCMJ.

Ah, good point. I hadn't honestly considered that. I just figured they had looked and it didn't have exactly what they wanted.

Besides, the ninja who can't write his way out of a wet paper bag with a sharp pencil is far more headache-inducing.

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