Talk:Sword of Totsuka

Kusanagi and Totsuka
Okay, once and for all, is the Totsuka a version of the Kusanagi or the opposite? Yatanogarasu 23:36, November 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * It's a Kusanagi sword not the opposite. Apparently it was a bad translation that said it was the opposite --Cerez365 (talk) 23:39, November 22, 2010 (UTC)

Name
Shouldn't we call this "Sword of Ten Hands Long" or "Totsuka no Tsurugi" instead? Like Decapitating Carving Knife or Samehada. Instead of a half translation, make it a full. Yatanogarasu 23:39, November 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * I strongly disagree. Not only is the name of the Totsuka no Tsurugi completely meaningless here, but translating it fully would also obscure the links it has with Japanese mythology. We might as well translate Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi. For that matter, we might as well translate Kusanagi. —ShounenSuki (talk 23:47, November 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * As for the 'no tsurugi' part, I'd rather not keep that Japanese. It only adds confusion, making the name unnecessarily long, and translating it actually adds to the name. It has meaning and is relevant, making it logical to translate. —ShounenSuki (talk 23:49, November 22, 2010 (UTC)

"Of?"
Should it be "Sword of Totsuka" or "Totsuka Sword?" I always thought it was the second one, but... 98.200.125.177 (talk) 22:33, November 23, 2010 (UTC)


 * Both are equally valid. ~SnapperTo 00:51, November 24, 2010 (UTC)
 * Maybe we should decide on a standard. You know, to make things consistent with Sword of Kusanagi and Yata Mirror. —ShounenSuki (talk 00:54, November 24, 2010 (UTC)
 * There are several similar cases, aren't there? The many Lands, Eye of the Moon, all of the jutsu. Everything with の, really. Since we favor literal translations, it doesn't make much sense to rearrange the Japanese and add "of" just to retain some artifact of の. ~SnapperTo 01:19, November 24, 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh, I'm not saying we have to go over each and every instance of の. It's quite simply bullshit to think it always literally translates to 'of'. It simply has a broader function than that.
 * What I meant was that with the 'legendary' tools like the Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, the Totsuka-no-Tsurugi, and the Yata-no-Tsurugi, it would look nicer if we translated them in the same way. To give our English-speaking audience the same sense of consistency that the Japanese readers would feel when seeing those names. The situation as it is now would be akin to us translating Hi no Kuni as 'Land of Fire', but Mizu no Kuni as 'Water Country'. —ShounenSuki (talk 02:00, November 24, 2010 (UTC)