Punti-Hakka Clan Wars
Over time the newcomers adopted the term "Hakka" to refer to themselves, not least due to the migratory tendencies inherent in their own culture. However, because the term also covers Hakka speakers (in the same way that Punti covered several people speaking different tongues), and because the Han Chinese registered as Guest Families who migrated may not have been Hakka speakers, and because of intermarriages among Hakka and Punti members (which showed that relations between the two were very good at times), identification as Hakka was largely a matter of self-selection. Through studies of both Cantonese and Hakka genealogies, some Hakka and Punti people with the same surnames claim the same ancestors, although their descendants strongly identify with one group to the exclusion of the other.
Eijudō Hibino at Seventy-one (Toyokuni I)
The auspiciousness of these objects can be attributed to a variety of factors. In Edo era Japan, hawks were considered "natural emblems of the Japanese warrior class due to their keen eyesight, their predatory nature, and their boldness." The homophone 高 ("taka") means 'great' or 'high.' The eggplant has long been considered to have associations with fertility, and is also a homophone for 成す ("nasu"), "to accomplish; to achieve; to succeed in." 'Fuji' (富士), when written with the homophone "kanji" characters 不 ("fu" - not/ un-) and 死 ("ji" - death), can be interpreted to mean 'immortality.' When taken as a group, the combination of the syllables "fuji", "taka", "nasu" can also be read as homophones for "unparalleled success."