So the state of wikipedia articles on places in Saga-ken is very sad. I finally decided to edit my town's entry, since I know a little bit, what with living here. Now the English page on wiki is longer than the Japanese wiki's. That's not really suprising; Japanese wikipedia is painfully dry. You can still be a good writer while having a neutral and academic point of view in English, but Japanese seems to lack that ability, if wiki is any indication.
So, is your town's wiki looking good? Get to work, be proud of where you live! When I started looking, I found tons of info (via sources like three giant books and diagrams of secret-Christian graves), especially about a guy I mentioned way back (Takeno Shintaro), the Gatalympics, and festivals. My next wiki projects: Saga-ben, Saga International Balloon Fiesta, and Hadake (naked!) Matsuris.
But can you help me with the page a bit? This is a community thing after all. Go look, and correct any mistake you see. I am a notrious misspeller. ;)
Also, how about this? Can you translate this bad boy into an understandable term (I got the romaji covered)?: 流れ灌頂
Finally:
Why is the white man taking our picture?
"TARA-town TAKO-village - Western Saga colony" tho needs confirmation!
ReplyDeleteAm In a hurry so I couldn't translate the whole announcement, sorry!
running it through google's translator (translate.google.com/translate_t , it kind of sucks but sometimes helpful) it seems like it's announcing an annual beetle tournament
ReplyDeleteand omg i wasn't expecting the spitting out of reversi pieces(or whatever those were), rofl
hmmm. And here I thought is was about baby-sumo... (it happens in Sasebo!)
ReplyDeletethose were go pieces.
☆全日本カブト虫相撲大会☆ ７月下旬〜８月上旬
ReplyDeleteThe Japan National Beetle Battle Tournament, From the end of July to the beginning of August.
全国の子供たちが日頃かわいがっている自慢のカブト虫を、相撲、力比べなどの競技に出場させるイベント。
It's an event of children from all over the nation in a wrestling contest of strength between their adored beetles.
毎年県内外から多くの子供たちがエントリーしています｡
Every year there are many children from other prefectures who submit an entry.
場所：太良町田古里 佐賀西部コロニー
Location: The town of 太良町田 (Taro-machida? I don't know this city name) , Western Saga colony.
流れ灌頂
This is something about flowing "Kanjou". It's water that you pour on your head for purification? Or...for the forgiveness of the Bodhisatva? It's something in Buddhism. Is it the water at the shrine that you use to cleanse yourself with?
thanks. My confusion about kanjou is how it relates to what they do (see the wiki article for more) and how to literally translate it.
ReplyDeletehilarious caption XD
ReplyDeleteThe blood smears were red colored pencil rubbed across the paper, and the blood stains looked like they were big drops of red ink. It was a really neat effect!
ReplyDeleteAfter all, Orcs probably aren't very clean killers.
jake b, you're very attracted to the color red! what is the link with these children????
ReplyDeletecan you explain???what's your "dawa", "trip", "joke"...?
or, it was simply a joke?...