(Ms.) Tomo Kimura’s Translation/Tokyo Notes

I happened to be reading an article on feng shui and it mentioned that northwest is the direction that rules work fortune. An example of “power stone” layout mentioned was to to put a stone that symbolizes “mountain” in that direction, because the mountain on the northwest symbolizes Mount Kongrong, and powerful living energies flow from that direction.

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The way human character names are handle have changed from this volume. Since the change is not mentioned in the tankobon, I’ll explain it here.

Characters that first appeared in Vol.1-5: western name order
Characters that first appear in Vol. 6 on: Japanese name order

3-minute Cooking

There’s a daily TV cooking show with this name.

Dakki’s cooking book

There’s a woman’s magazine named “ESSE” here.

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The name “xx-shi” means “someone of the XX clan”.

The Princes’ Names

In the original, both princes have the same names but written differently, i.e. 殷郊 (Inko) the first prince, and 殷洪 (Inko) the second prince.

In the anime, the names were changed to Inchao and Inhon.

The names were changed in the English version because there’s no way to tell the two apart with the original names written in romaji.

Donmuraya

There is a company named 井村屋 (Imuraya) that make pork buns. Add a stroke to the middle of 井 and you get 丼村屋 (Donmuraya)

In Kansai, pork buns are often called 豚まん (pork buns), but I’ve noticed that in Kanto, the term 肉まん (meat buns) is more prevalent. I’ve heard theories that this is because when people hear meat, people in Kansai assume it’s beef, whereas in Kanto, people assume it’s pork.