Fuck Yeah! Daijiro Kato 「加藤大治郎」 74

Shame I haven’t these photos in good quality, but apparently, it’s a moral duty to post them.

From 1999. Kato, in the bike with the number 100, with one of his closest friends and part of his childhood combo, Yuuichi Takeda.

Takeda is most known for being the youngest winner of World Superbikes Championship history, at Sugo 96. Sadly, Takeda after of this race did not shine at international level.

1998.

From a photographer known as "Natsu".

Family name: Katō 「加藤」

「加」 Used for verb "increase", "join", "include", "add". It also defines the word "addition" and it's the kanji used for Canada. For the reading on verbs is used the kunyomi reading, and it can be "kuwaeru" or "kuwaru". For composing other words, it's often used the onyomi (Derivated from Chinese reading) "ka".

It has not nanori (exclusive for given names) readings.

Info about this kanji here.

「藤」 It's the kanji for the wisteria flower. For refer to the flower it's read "fuji", as being its kunyomi reading. It's also used this pronunciation for "Fujiwara" family name (藤原) and other words related with purple or wisteria. This kanji is also very common in some Japanese family names with the onyomi pronunciations "tō", or if softened, "dō".

Other family names using this kanji on pronunciation onyomi are Andō (安藤 for example Masahiro Andō, guitarrist and leader of Japanese jazz band T-SQUARE) and another way more common: Satō (左藤 like Takuma Satō, Japanese Indycar driver).

It has three nanori readings: "zou", "to" (NOT confuse with the onyomi readings, since the onyomi has long vocals) and "fuju".

Info about this kanji here.

Given name: Daijirō  「大治郎」

「大」 This kanji always means "big" or "large". Its onyomi readings are only two: "tai" and "dai". This second one is the used for "Daijirō". For kunyomi, it's used "oo", and it's always used together with other words, or, for write "ookii" (大きい), the adjective word for "big". At nihongoresources, it's put other kunyomi reading that actually I don't know for what is used.

That's why Katō's nickname, "Dai-chan" it's always written: 大ちゃん. If you hear this word or you read these kanjis in any context of Japanese motorbike racing, surely they will be talking about Daijirō.

It has thirteen nanori readings.

Info about this kanji here.

「治」 This kanji has so many meanings regarding government, or peace. With kunyomi readings, it's always used with verbs: "osameru" is "to govern". "osamaru" is "to be at peace". "naoru" is "to be cured" and similars regarding healing, and the same with "naosu". As onyomi readings, uses the readings "chi" or "ji", and it's always used in composite with other kanjis. This kanji, in fact, it's the "ji" of "seiji" 「政治」, the Japanese word for "politics".

The name "Daijirō" in some people can use the writing 「大二郎」 (using one of the pronuncations of the kanji of "number two"), but this is not the reading used for Daijirō Katō. For him, the "ji" is the kanji 「治」.

This kanji has five nanori readings.

Info about this kanji here.

「郎」This means "son" and it's also the kanji used as a counter for count how many sons you have. Normally, it has only one kunyomi reading, "otoko". But, normally are used the onyomi readings, "rō" and "ryō".

This kanji has six nanori readings.

Info about this kanji here.

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As you could notice, all his name uses onyomi readings in all the kanjis. I apologize deeply for having put so technical info.

Please, be aware that in Japanese language, it's first read the family name and later the given name, and I respected this structure for this post.

Personally, I like very, very much the kanji of his given name, because they can be read as "son of a big reign".

For the consulting of kanji I used nihongoresources, a pretty decent website for consult Japanese words and has a great kanji dictionary with the writings, the radicals, trace numbers, and pronunciation, but they do not use romaji. It requers, therefore, to know the hiragana and katakana syllabaries.

Jerez 2001.

Just seek for this icon:

And, you will get to the music player ^_^ <3

星になった～a.Rider ☆74☆～ (Hoshi ni natta ~A. Rider 74~) by 神楽 (KAGURA)

Sis, Puella Magica! by 梶浦由記 (Yuki Kajiura)

Les Jours Tristes by Yann Tiersen

Comptine D'Un Autre Ete - L'Apres Midi by Yann Tiersen

Forever Love by X JAPAN

With this, I hope all of you enjoy loads. All of them were already on the former music player, but now, with a selection of five songs, I chose these ones.

Enjoy! ^_^

I inform that finally I could change the look of this blog! :D

Around 2002.

The guys of DediKato’s Official Facebook published this photo. Probably from 2002 or 2003, in Portoverde (?). He got a new bike for train and going around.

When I have some time, I will upload on here some of the recent photos who were uploaded of the official t-shirt of "DediKato 2013". They're on the official facebook of DediKato :D.

Sorry for post that late.

But yes, this is the first year of this blog. Today is May 9th. <3

To all people who is already following this blog and reading when it's updated, thank you very much, guys!

And don't worry, guys. On here you will have still even more posts for your enyoing.

It was a crazy idea who appeared in a sudden moment. And then, though this is still a little blog, on here, me, Kanaru, I am trying to do my best for keep in some way the legacy of dear Dai-chan.

To all of you, THANK YOU.

On here, the staff of "Fuck Yeah! Daijiro Kato" we say thanks to all of you. Gracias, Obrigado, Arigatou, Danke, Grazie, Merci, Xie Xie, Thank you.

And to you, wherever you are, dearest Dai-chan, thanks for the memories and for have been on this world.