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Not directly. Translation would be "to govern" or "gather together", but Subaru is one of the constellation's names in Japan, like it would also be called Pleiades in the West, deriving from "plein", meaning "to sail."[0]

[0]https://web.archive.org/web/20100411083646/http://www.subaru...

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I think his point is while Subaru does mean Pleiades in Japanese (actually came from Chinese), it (the name) has nothing to do with "seven sisters".

I don't follow. The logo literally has six stars, which is the subject of what we are discussing here.

They’ve identified the same stars, but do the Han or Korean or Japanese have a story about 7 sisters?

Doesn't look like. According to Japanese Wikipedia they used to be also called 六連星 ("group of 6 stars", I think?).

Subaru itself cited[1] Kojiki literature from the 8th century when talking about the origin of its name.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20100411083646/http://www.subaru...

Unfortunately, trying to find anything more online, such as what exactly the Kojiki says about them, doesn't seem to yield much.

Chinese have a story called 天仙配, where a fairy maiden married to a mortal. That girl is called seventh fairy, as she’s the last of 7 sisters.

So it is very similar to the lost Pleiad, but the seventh fairy is taken back by her god father.

>nothing to do with "seven sisters"

I don’t see anyone claiming that Subaru means seven sisters. It’s just another name for the same constellation.

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