Meaning and background
The story behind Kinoko
Kinoko is Japanese for a mushroom, a name with a precise word meaning rather than a speculative personal-name origin. Japanese reference works trace it to an older expression meaning ‘child of the tree’ or ‘wood’s child’, an explanation of the word's formation, not a separate promise of symbolism. For a dog, the mushroom association is immediately useful; the Japanese reading should be distinguished from whatever English pronunciation an owner chooses.
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About Kinoko
Recorded as a dog’s name
Kinoko appears in 4 dog licence records in the 2026 New York City dataset.
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Sources and research notes (1)
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene NYC Dog Licensing Dataset — extract_year 2026 — Dog licence periods, not unique dogs; NYC only. No owner-level fields retrieved.
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