Uh, yeah.  I know what a tatami mat is.  I wasn't going to bug you about it, though!<br/><br/>Unless there's a double-pun I don't see, which happens a lot with Japanese because of...  I guess you'd call them homonyms.  (Japanese words that are pronounced the same, but written with different kanji.)  Those always make me groan, though, mostly because of too much time spent around Akira Toriyama's works...  he is the<em>worst</em>punsmith ever, and he just sort of exults in the fact.<br/><br/>More fun with names: Ichigo = "Strawberry" (Yum!), Hikari = "Pure Light" (The context of 'pure' used is generally understood to mean 'holy', but can also be construed as 'white' sometimes.), Yukiko = "Snow Child", etc.<br/><br/>Kimikura and Nakamura aren't among the 'common' Japanese surnames--there are about 10,000 of them that came about when the Emperor declared that all people, rather than just nobles, were to have a surname, and like Europeans in the same situation most entire villages simply used their village name or professions as their surname--nor are they one of the samurai or ninja lineages, or a noble house; we can thus safely assume they're probably an evil alien out to suck on our brains!  Koga is a ninja clan name.  Ironically, our local demon, Kurokawa's surname is drawn from the common pool of family names; he can therefore assumed to be the only upstanding citizen amongst us.