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This topic is for our fellow member Big (Peter R) to post his wonderful links that he digs up with a Japanese flavour. Peter, feel free to add your urls here as you find them, and people can comment h

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:thumbsup:  English has certainly changed since those days, but Cipango & Zipangu sure don't sound a lot like Japan or Nihon/Nippon/Yamato. I follow the article's logic, although it sounds like the Chinese came closest to naming Japan.

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Just as well. I would hate for the forum to have to be called the Zipangu-to Messageboard.
Or the Cipango-to messageboard.
Nippon-to Message Board doesn't sound to bad.
Himomoto-to Message Board? ...umm....no.....

 

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But you have to remember those weren’t named in English first but in old Italian and later in 16th century Spanish and Portuguese. Obviously, all the other languages that followed borrowed from the original which was a mispronunciation in the first place.

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Particularly interesting, Peter, as our dojo trains in Muso Jikiden Eishin-Ryu iaijutsu, as passed down through the Tanimura lineage, going back some 350 years. And, since there are only two formally-recognized lineages - Tanimura-ha & Shimomura-ha - I'm not sure that the sensei in that article can be considered as authentic. And, despite three decades of iai training, I've never come across their dojo, either.

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