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Names and movie inspiration
Aug. 23rd, 2013 03:49 pmI recently read an article that mentioned that in his lifetime there's a good chance that Nobunaga wasn't referred to as "Nobunaga". The website was under construction, so this bit is still labelled "More coming soon". Well, that was interesting. It brought to mind this movie:
(Nobou no Shiro, The Floating Castle)
In the movie, two secondary characters were called "Tanba" and "Nezumi". Except... that wasn't their names. That's their titles. I forgot what their real names were (been too long since I watched it), but they're really Lord of Tanba and Lord of Nezumi.
Which makes me wonder if that half-finished article is true. I mean, in the movie Hideyoshi was never called "Hideyoshi" either. He was "Regent" (Kanpaku?) or "The Monkey". Even records written by his supposed close friend Maeda Toshiie refers to him as the Taiko, not "HIdeyoshi-sama" or whatnot. Does this mean that Nobunaga would be called "Kazusanosuke-sama" instead of "Nobunaga-sama"? Well, that's great. It sucks because I have no idea what titles other people have! GAH. And I know in fiction I can do whatever, considering many movies would go ahead and call the lords by name and not title, but still. I AM A STICKLER SOMETIMES AND IT BUGS ME WHEN I CANNOT FIND THE NECESSARY INFORMATION!
And here's a movie inspiration for the East Asian steampunk theme:
( Rant-o-rama )
(Nobou no Shiro, The Floating Castle)In the movie, two secondary characters were called "Tanba" and "Nezumi". Except... that wasn't their names. That's their titles. I forgot what their real names were (been too long since I watched it), but they're really Lord of Tanba and Lord of Nezumi.
Which makes me wonder if that half-finished article is true. I mean, in the movie Hideyoshi was never called "Hideyoshi" either. He was "Regent" (Kanpaku?) or "The Monkey". Even records written by his supposed close friend Maeda Toshiie refers to him as the Taiko, not "HIdeyoshi-sama" or whatnot. Does this mean that Nobunaga would be called "Kazusanosuke-sama" instead of "Nobunaga-sama"? Well, that's great. It sucks because I have no idea what titles other people have! GAH. And I know in fiction I can do whatever, considering many movies would go ahead and call the lords by name and not title, but still. I AM A STICKLER SOMETIMES AND IT BUGS ME WHEN I CANNOT FIND THE NECESSARY INFORMATION!
And here's a movie inspiration for the East Asian steampunk theme:
( Rant-o-rama )
