ext_165988 ([identity profile] gurdymonkey.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] gurdymonkey 2011-08-30 04:05 pm (UTC)

The translations are not mine - they're taken from Master Edward of Effingham's table on modes of address and rank at
http://www.sengokudaimyo.com/miscellany/address.html

Interestingly enough, the person whose fault it is I got interested in Japanese dragged me to a class on all this at Pennsic 28 by Effing-Sensei and I found it confusing as all hell. "He Who Is In Front of What?" and all that. ;-D

Fealty is being duly mulled. More than that I cannot say now - except committing phonetic Japanese to memory is HARD.

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