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Gender Masculine
Usage Japanese (Rare)
Scripts 織部(Japanese Kanji) おりべ(Japanese Hiragana) オリベ(Japanese Katakana)
Meaning & History
This name is used as 織部 with 織 (shoku, shiki, o.ru, (-)o(.)ri) meaning "weave" and 部 (bu, -be) meaning "section, department, class."
In the case of daimyō and celebrated master of the Japanese tea ceremony Furuta Shigenari (古田 重然), better known as Furute Oribe (古田 織部) (1544-1615), the name Oribe is a pseudonym, being a hyakkanna (百官名), a court rank-style name that samurai used to announce oneself and give himself authority.
The name comes from the name of an office (織部司/Oribeshi or Oribe-no-tsukasa), belonging to the Ministry of the Treasury under the Ritsuryō system, which deals with textiles.One recent bearer of this name is former football player Oribe Niikawa (新川 織部) (1988-).This name is very rarely used in modern times.
In the case of daimyō and celebrated master of the Japanese tea ceremony Furuta Shigenari (古田 重然), better known as Furute Oribe (古田 織部) (1544-1615), the name Oribe is a pseudonym, being a hyakkanna (百官名), a court rank-style name that samurai used to announce oneself and give himself authority.
The name comes from the name of an office (織部司/Oribeshi or Oribe-no-tsukasa), belonging to the Ministry of the Treasury under the Ritsuryō system, which deals with textiles.One recent bearer of this name is former football player Oribe Niikawa (新川 織部) (1988-).This name is very rarely used in modern times.