What does Maru mean on Japanese ships?

The word maru (丸, meaning "circle") is often attached to Japanese ship names. The first ship known to follow this practice was the Nippon Maru, flagship of daimyō Toyotomi Hideyoshi's 16th century fleet.

What is a Japanese Maru?

(Entry 1 of 2) : a Japanese ship especially : a Japanese merchant ship.

What does Maru stand for?

In Japanese maru (kanji: 丸, hiragana: まる), means circle; see Japanese rebus monogram § Variations.

What does Kobayashi Maru stand for?

The Kobayashi Maru is a training exercise in the fictional Star Trek universe designed to test the character of Starfleet Academy cadets in a no-win scenario.

Why are swords called Maru?

Maru means "round;" but how came ships by so inappropriate a name? The first thing to note is that in former times ships had not the monopoly of the name. Swords, musical instruments of various kinds, pieces of armour, dogs, hawks, and the concentric sections of castles, were called Maru also.

Why do Japanese Ships Have Maru in the Name

Why do Japanese swords end in Maru?

Merchant ships

The most common is that ships were thought of as floating castles, and the word referred to the defensive "circles" or maru that protected the castle. The suffix -maru is often applied to words representing something beloved, and sailors applied this suffix to their ships.

Why did Kirk cheated on the Kobayashi Maru?

Kirk reprogrammed the Kobayashi Maru because he didn't grasp the point of the simulation. Kirk thought it was a test of whether in the circumstances you could succeed in saving everyone. On that basis, he thought the circumstances were unfair (since there was no way to save everyone), so he changed them.

Did Spock create Kobayashi Maru?

Spock was not the one who invented the entire idea of the Kobayashi Maru test, but he was the one who programmed the version that Kirk took.

What kind of ship was the Kobayashi Maru?

The USS Kobayashi Maru (ECS-1022) was a Federation Class III neutronic fuel carrier that served as a component of the Kobayashi Maru scenario, a no-win-scenario at the Starfleet Academy.

What were Japanese battleships named after?

Japanese battleships were always named after ancient provinces or mountains. Famed Yamato was christened for the province of Japan's most ancient capital city, Nara, in Central Honshu. This word was also used in ancient times to mean the whole country of Japan.

What does Kobayashi mean in Japanese?

Kobayashi (written: 小林 lit. " small forest") is the 8th most common Japanese surname.

What kind of name is Maru?

Maru is a given name. In Spanish it is a short form (hypocorism) of María Eugenia.

What does Nisshin Maru mean in English?

The Nisshin Maru (日新丸) is the primary vessel of the Japanese whaling fleet and is the world's only whaler factory ship.

What is a Japanese boat called?

In Japanese, the traditional boat is known as the wasen. Wa means "traditional Japanese thing" and sen is one suffix meaning boat or ship. The word for boat in Japanese is fune; when attached to a modifying noun it gains a hard sound and become .... bune.

What was Captain Kirk's favorite line?

1 "To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before!"

These words have been said by many a Star Trek captain, but Captain Kirk was the first.

What is the lesson of the Kobayashi Maru?

Never Give Up—or At Least Not Right Away. If you're trying to do something that hasn't been done before, there's a good chance that, at least once in the project, it will feel like your project is out-of-control.

How many times did Kirk take the Kobayashi Maru?

The Kobayashi Maru is an “unwinnable” practice scenario designed by Starfleet and Spock to test the decision-making of a starship captain in a no-win scenario. How does one react in that situation? Well, in Kirk's case, he cheated. This has been visited twice, once in novel form and once in the 2009 film, Star Trek.

What is the solution to the Kobayashi Maru?

Solution: Fire upon the civilian ship, destroying it, killing any survivors left aboard.

When was the Kobayashi Maru created?

The origin of the Kobayashi Maru scenario was revealed in Michael A. Martin and Andy Mangels' Star Trek: Enterprise novel Kobayashi Maru set in 2155.

How did not beat the Kobayashi Maru?

Nog broke the Kobayashi Maru by trying to deal with it in a way it wasn't programmed to handle: the Ferengi way. Actually, re-reading the stories, they both seem to treat this like Nog's first time taking the test, and both depend on him getting pivotal advice from Boothby.

Do the Yakuza use katanas?

Katana is a weapon. In modern Japan, Yakuza gangs (partly because of the strict gun laws; discharging a gun may get you a life in prison in Japan) still use katanas with great efficiency and people still lose their heads in Kabukicho district in Tokyo.

How big is a nodachi?

The nodachi measures an extraordinary 6 feet 7 inches overall with a full tang blade that measures 57" long which continues an extra 21 into the handle. The diameter of the steel tsuba is 3.25 inch. A double bamboo pegged and brass minuke is visible on this magnificent sword.