Submitted Name Save Gender Masculine Usage Japanese Scripts 健三郎(Japanese Kanji) Edit Status Status [history·contributorshide contributors] Added 10/1/2019 by Felie Edited 10/2/2019 by Felie Meaning & History From Japanese kanji 健 (ken) meaning "strong; healthy" combined with 三 (zabu) meaning "three; third" and 郎 (rō) meaning "son".Kenzaburō Ōe (1935-) is a Japanese writer and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994.