Talk:Sumire Nagasawa/@comment-24652096-20190418075154/@comment-36277500-20190510214550

Rather: 長沢すみれ. Or 永沢すみれ.

長 Naga - 1) long, 2) leader, superior, senior

永 Naga - 1) long, 2) eternal

沢 Sawa - 2) swamp, marsh, 2) pond, lake, mountain stream, 3) valley, 4) brilliant, grace

すみれ - Violet

澤 Sawa - swamp (sorry!) - is not fitting for a love interest's surname, so it must be rather the other Sawa ideogram 沢, meaning mountain stream (something fresh and clear, not swampy and dirty).

Surname 長沢 may be translated as "long valley", "long stream". Also: "brilliant leader", "superior grace", what is more proper, since she's an artist.

Surname 永沢 - "long stream", "eternal stream" or "eternal grace".

Most people around the world - Japanese aren't exception! - always prefer to write and explain their surnames in the most pretty and advantageous way. Nagasawa is mostly written as 長沢, and most people with this surname would prefer to be considered as "long stream" or "superior brilliance" than "long swamp".