Why "The Bamboo Village"?

Why did we decide to name our blog "The Bamboo Village"? We tossed around many ideas that included using some combination of our first names and something Hawaii-related, but every blog name we came up with was already taken! We settled on "Bamboo Village" which is the English translation of our last name: take- means "Bamboo" and -mura means "Village". Bamboo was also a main theme of our wedding, along with Chrysanthemum, which is the English translation of part of my maiden name, kiku-.