Old-fashioned japanese naming order help
Hey there, I just put up aliases for all the windows Touhou characters that switch Eastern name order to Western name order. This was to help myself in part--I'm so used to tagging/searching the other way around I don't want to screw up a bunch of pictures with thoughtless tagging. Also, I accidentally tapped enter and put up the incomplete alias "kasodani_kyouko-->kyouko", this should be "kasodani_kyouko-->kyouko_kasodani", which I also submitted. Sorry!
Anyways, I have a question regarding traditional Japanese naming order, i.e. old-fashioned/"noble" names in which the family name is followed by the possesive particle "no," i.e. "Fujiwara no Mokou," "Toyosatomimi no Miko," "Watatsuki no Yorihime," etc. Should the "no" be dropped in a switch to Western naming order, i.e. "mokou_fujiwara," or should the original order be maintained in these cases? I don't think keeping the "no" if the order is switched is acceptable, as it is a grammatical particle and changes the meaning of the name ("Fujiwara no Mokou"="Mokou of the Fujiwara," hence "Mokou no Fuijwara" would mean "Fujiwara of the Mokou".) Discarding the "no" for a Western name order gets rid of a little bit of the original flavor, in my opinion, but it's inconsistent with Hypnobooru's chosen naming scheme. Thoughts?
Anyways, I have a question regarding traditional Japanese naming order, i.e. old-fashioned/"noble" names in which the family name is followed by the possesive particle "no," i.e. "Fujiwara no Mokou," "Toyosatomimi no Miko," "Watatsuki no Yorihime," etc. Should the "no" be dropped in a switch to Western naming order, i.e. "mokou_fujiwara," or should the original order be maintained in these cases? I don't think keeping the "no" if the order is switched is acceptable, as it is a grammatical particle and changes the meaning of the name ("Fujiwara no Mokou"="Mokou of the Fujiwara," hence "Mokou no Fuijwara" would mean "Fujiwara of the Mokou".) Discarding the "no" for a Western name order gets rid of a little bit of the original flavor, in my opinion, but it's inconsistent with Hypnobooru's chosen naming scheme. Thoughts?