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拓海
たくみ
Takumi
tah-KOO-mee · a male name
“To pioneer the sea”
Pioneering · Free · Determined
The story of Takumi
The explorer's Takumi — opening a path across the open sea.
Takumi is the everyday Japanese word for a master artisan. As a name it honors patience, skill and the beauty of things made by hand.
Kanji by kanji
to open up, pioneer
A kanji of clearing new ground — the hand that opens what was closed.
ocean
The kanji for the sea — vast, open and full of possibility.
How it feels
The full story
About 拓海
拓海 turns the artisan's patience outward: the same steady hands, now charting new water. It suits a maker who is also a pioneer.
Popularity in Japan
Takumi held a firm place in the top 20 through the 1990s and 2000s and never feels dated.
Through the decades
A craftsman-spirit name that rose alongside Japan's renewed pride in monozukuri — the art of making things.
Deep dive
Japan reveres its artisans: sword smiths, carpenters, potters who spend decades perfecting one skill. Naming a child Takumi places him in that lineage of quiet mastery, where excellence is devotion made visible.
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