Ayumi's Name is Ayumi... Read before posting about Kurumi!!

Delirium-Zer0 · #1 18th June 2006, 04:36 PM

Okay, WAY too many people are posting about what Ayumi's REAL name is lately. Here it is.

Ayumi Hamasaki was born with the name Ayumi. The name "Kurumi Hamazaki" was used by ONE talent agency for ONE thing, and that was her role in Twins Teacher. She's known as Ayumi for absolutely EVERYTHING else, including life.

That's it.

Thank you for your time.

Dustie · #2 18th June 2006, 04:39 PM

Heh, I've read about that recently on Wikipedia. I thought it was still a controversy/mystery with that other/original name. I didn't know it was for one movie only though. But she was infact credited as Hamasaki Ayumi for Nagisa no Sindbad...

Qt Mashi · #3 18th June 2006, 04:43 PM

haha

Norrel · #4 18th June 2006, 04:51 PM

They have been talking about it recently?

Hm,

I thought it was Kayumi Amaguri

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLlxQ...=Ayumi%20bobby

=P

immel · #5 18th June 2006, 04:59 PM

^A few recent threads has walked into the subject of her name on later pages.

Thanks for making sure to clear it up for everyone Delirium-Zer0

kirika · #6 18th June 2006, 05:08 PM

Thank you for clearing this out. But I wouldn't be myself if I didn't ask, where did you get this info, Delirium-Zer0?

immel · #7 18th June 2006, 05:12 PM

Hehe, I take anything you say as given, I somehow decided to trust you.

@kirika I belive the source is herself, with what information she has collected and conclusions she has made throughout the years.

chocobo · #8 18th June 2006, 05:29 PM

i thought kurumi is chinese name of ayu used in malaysia or china...

marty518 · #9 18th June 2006, 05:33 PM

Also doesn't wikipedia have the Chinese kanji for her name marked as the "real" kanji for her name? 濱崎歩 is what they say her real name is, but I think that's just the Chinese, whereas 浜崎あゆみ is her real Japanese name.

immel · #10 18th June 2006, 05:35 PM

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Originally Posted by marty518

Also doesn't wikipedia have the Chinese kanji for her name marked as the "real" kanji for her name? 浜崎歩 is what they say her real name is, but I think that's just the Chinese, whereas 浜崎あゆみ is her real Japanese name.

浜崎歩 is her given birth name, whereas 浜崎あゆみ is her artist name. According to my teacher it's written in the Japanese law that everyone must have a 100% kanji name.

For the reference, kanji is the symbols the Japanese have borrowed from china, in many cases giving them new meaning and pronounciation.

mishidabo · #11 18th June 2006, 05:48 PM

i've never heard of that law immel .. i have japanese friends who doesnt have their names with full Kanji

and the chinese kanjis were not borrowed from china.. china taught their writting to japanese and they just modify it ( like koreans did) just to clear things up

immel · #12 18th June 2006, 05:49 PM

^I didn't literally mean borrow, it's usually called that when a country uses words from another language. Thanks for the information though

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AyUmIXx · #13 18th June 2006, 05:49 PM

her chinese name is written and pronounced in pin yin like this, "Bing ching Bu" (correct me pls with the Pin Yin..)

mishidabo · #14 18th June 2006, 05:53 PM

and about the Chinese kanji and the japanese

Chinese 濱崎歩
Japanese 浜崎あゆみ or 濱崎歩 ( its the same)

alternarist · #15 18th June 2006, 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by AyUmIXx

her chinese name is written and pronounced in pin yin like this, "Bing ching Bu" (correct me pls with the Pin Yin..)

its Bin Qi (Hamasaki) Ayumi (Bu).

haha. alright. i have learned to accept that her name is Ayumi Hamasaki.

AyUmIXx · #16 18th June 2006, 07:55 PM

alternarist: thanks for clearing it up.. haha

same kanjis but different pronounciation..
therefore, japanese and chinese people are actually the same origin...

shinde · #17 18th June 2006, 08:08 PM

Ooh...before I thought that 濱崎歩 was used only because the 浜 from 浜崎 doesn't exist in Chinese, thus they used a homonym, which is 濱 and it means the same thing...and that they had to translate あゆみ into 歩 since it literally means step (other wise they can't translate あゆみ because it's Japanese characters). Thanks for clearing this up, I was so confused before.

**Ryoko** · #18 18th June 2006, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by immel

濱崎歩 is her given birth name, whereas 浜崎あゆみ is her artist name. According to my teacher it's written in the Japanese law that everyone must have a 100% kanji name.

For the reference, kanji is the symbols the Japanese have borrowed from china, in many cases giving them new meaning and pronounciation.

I never heard that law, and my cousin is Japanese. I think that 浜崎歩 is possibly her real name, not 濱崎歩.

A lot of names are hiragana-only, they don't have kanji equivalents, so I'm not so sure about this law that you're talking about.

immel · #19 18th June 2006, 08:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Ryoko

I never heard that law, and my cousin is Japanese. I think that 浜崎歩 is possibly her real name, not 濱崎歩.

Whoups, I'm extremely sorry, I misstyped when writing her name, ofcourse I meant 浜崎歩! I'll edit my post immediately.

I'm not sure either, I was just quoting my teacher who lived there for several years, he's not from Japan though.

walking proud · #20 18th June 2006, 08:52 PM

Thank you SO MUCH for this. I'm tired of redoing the wikipedia article where it says REAL NAME: HAMASAKI KURUMI. I have to keep editing it..