This paper explores the translation in Japanese of grammatical gender (masculine, feminine, neutral) stemming from the Dutch language. It took almost a century (1750-1850) for Japanese specialists in Dutch studies to understand grammatical gender. Once this grammatical category was understood, the next step was to transfer such category to the Japanese language. Genders were assimilated to the cultural concepts of yin and yang. From this first semantic classification emerged the grammatical gender category with the discovery of Dutch grammars and literal transposition of Dutch terminology. These two stages can also be found in Greece (from the fifth century BC to the second century AD) during the slow emergence of the grammatical gender in Ancient Greece and the Greek language. Indeed, the Sophists led the foundation of a semantic noun classification from which a morphological category was invented by grammarians. This convergence may lead to the hypothesis of two ordered steps in other cases of emerging grammatical categories, i.e. a semantic step followed by a grammatical stage.??????18 ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 1 ???1750-1850?????????????????? 2 ??????????????????? masculine gender ? feminine gender ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 7 ???????? 5 ?? 2 ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????