サトル・イアン（Ian SUTTLE）

Sorry if I came across as hostile. I've had some pretty bad experiences with people who have never heard of Akutagawa but are absolutely convinced that a movie that Anglo-American film buffs like is better and "more important" than anything he ever wrote😅

I've heard that too, but it's a myth propagated by those who have never read the story.

Takes *what* imagery from the story?

The eponymous gate was a real thing. You can visit the site where it once stood.

"Mostly"?

I hate to say this, but I have an intense dislike for these revised subtitles Tuttle and MDF have been giving Hearn's books. The word "yōkai" (in vernacular Japanese as opposed to literary Sinitic) was a neologism coined shortly before Hearn's arrival in Japan, and he had probably never heard of it.

I've been there a few timesーAyuko and her husband have become "family friends" of sorts☺️

Indeed I am!☘️

I hope more people in Ireland discover him, as he's probably the 3rd or 4th best-known Irish writer globally. Then maybe the plaque outside his old house will be restored😅

Thank you too!
I've been pretty quiet lately, but I'm hoping to post more once things are a bit quieter in August🥵

Thing is, they've followed the spelling of his name, so I suspect the issue is that no Irish familiar with the actual pronunciation had enough Japanese to check.

Hearn has been dead for over 120 years, so the present perfect "has used" is odd. Also, what word do you consider him to have been translating?

I know, right?
An argument could be made that a translator of narrative comics should prioritize creating an enjoyable story, but a text meant to teach history really shouldn't be making such radical changes😓

Context also matters: it's fairly clear that either the translator or the editor was unfamiliar with this history (elsewhere in the same work, 大人ーmeaning "regional magnates" or the likeーis translated as "adults"), so it's difficult to read this as a conscious choice of the "least bad option".

I don't think I'd want to apply a hard general rule, but "governor" implies someone assigned by the central government to administer a specific province, but there were no "provinces of Japan" during the period in question, and even later 筑紫国 was never one of said provinces.

Slightly more detailed Japanese version of this on Facebook. It's quite telling that even the government of Ireland regularly spells his name with a fada on the "i".

This is actually based on an issue that's been on my mind, on and off, for over a decade, but that's been cropping up lately as a result of a now-ongoing (as of 14 June still "upcoming") state visit by my country's head of government.

Ian's Translation Tips 048:
Translating "Taoiseach" into Japanese as 首相 is perfectly fine, but translating 首相 back into English as "Prime Minister" is wrong at best and can be offensive to many Irish people. Writing "Micheál" as ミホール, though, is wrong; a proper phonetic transcription would be ミーホール.

Now that the tension of meeting the man (I limited my comments to a brief remark about Kyoto St. Patrick's Day and sharing a photo take of my grandfather with Mícheál's predecessors Seán and Éamon), I can share my opinions on the Japanese translations ミホール and 首相.

Not entirely comfortable sharing the photo I took with the man himself, but here's the meishi I gave him and the Japanese side of the one I got from him.

Met Mícheál at Expo this evening☘️

PAL and NTSC *DVDs* were even still a thing. I'm fairly certain my Japanese PS2 will only play discs that are both Region 2 and NTSC😅

Honestly, sometimes I wish we could go back to those days😂

Unlike with some "terms", though, I've never experienced pushback for saying that The Simpsons, South Park, and Batman TAS are called アニメ in Japan, and I don't regularly see people claiming anime and manga are "unique Japanese concepts"😉

> Manga Entertainment ... represented a good share of the anime VHS market in Australia

Same in Ireland. I definitely remember people calling anime "manga", which I guess was a genericized trademark? But my Canadian cousin (who lived in Ireland from around his 11th birthday, TBF) did it too...🤷🏻‍♂️

Sorry, just read to the end of the thread. I guess everyone agrees that Animerica didn't conduct the interview in 1987😅

I suspect "anime" and "manga" were already in use for some time before appearing on the covers of monthly magazines. But I first learned them in '98 from my Torontonian cousin, who used them interchangeably, pronounced "anime" as アニミー, and had clearly first encountered them in print fairly recently.

While I'm sure sure some Anglo-American publications used terminology like "anime and manga" as early as 1987, I'm also old enough to remember when even fans of Japanese animation used them interchangeably, and even when "Japanimation" was current enough to be used on The Simpsons.

Wait... why does it say "The Animerica Interview"? Did they translate it from a 6-year-old Japanese publication?

原題の引用元となっている「聖人と学者の島」というアイルランドの美称は、（サトルの経験上）日本ではセントパトリックスデーパレードの運営者でさえあまり知られていないので、その邦題は仕方ないかと思います😅

"Bushidō" was coined in the early 20th century, decades after the end of the warrior class in Japan.

"Onna-bugeisha" was coined in 2006 by someone on Wikipedia who saw no issue with casually and arbitrarily referring to Japanese women as "geisha".

•Hearn was born in "the United States of the Ionianian Islands", a British protectorate that would later become part of the Kingdom of Greece.
•I'm reasonably certain that 27 June is the date he was born in the Gregorianーnot Julianーcalendar.
•What the hell was the USII's official calendar in 1850?😂

So, today is Lafcadio Hearn's birthday.

I may be the only one who hears that and thinks:
•At the time of Hearn's birth, Britain and Ireland officially used the Gregorian calendar, as they do today.
•The Kingdom of Greece, meanwhile, used the Julian calendar.