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Aoshi and the Aoiya
Jun. 8th, 2008 05:24 amSparked by a thread over on RKDreams, whose general inability to display kanji makes this particular discussion unnecessarily difficult. Also, http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1B can be an otaku's best friend.
The name of the Aoiya, the Kyoto inn run by the remnants of the Oniwabanshuu, is written 葵屋, as shown by two different placards at the bottom of page 152 in volume 9; like the similar signs in front of the Akabeko and Shirobeko, the original horizontal layout uses the "reversed" right-to-left order that was common before WWII or so. It does not use the same ao kanji as Shinomori Aoshi's name 四乃森 蒼紫, as shown on pp 78 and 80 of the "Profiles" book in modern left-to-right order.
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The name of the Aoiya, the Kyoto inn run by the remnants of the Oniwabanshuu, is written 葵屋, as shown by two different placards at the bottom of page 152 in volume 9; like the similar signs in front of the Akabeko and Shirobeko, the original horizontal layout uses the "reversed" right-to-left order that was common before WWII or so. It does not use the same ao kanji as Shinomori Aoshi's name 四乃森 蒼紫, as shown on pp 78 and 80 of the "Profiles" book in modern left-to-right order.
( snipped for excessive blather )
