襲名

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: The spelling is 襲名, read しゅうめい, and it combines 襲, meaning inherit, with 名, meaning name.
• Basic usage: 襲名 is succession to a professional name previously used by a master or predecessor, especially in traditional performing arts.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• The decision to inherit a name and a public celebration of succession
  • The forms are 襲名する and 襲名. The first is the apprentice's planned inheritance of a master's professional name; the second is a theater performance celebrating the new name.
• An apprentice's inherited name and a theater's celebratory performance
  • 弟子は師匠の名を襲名することになった。 — The apprentice was chosen to inherit the master's professional name.
  • 劇場では新しい名の襲名を祝う公演が開かれた。 — The theater held a performance celebrating the succession to the new name.