Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Japanese term or phrase:
Kage Bunshin no justu
English translation:
Shadow Divisions Technique
Aug 21, 2004 00:22
19 yrs ago
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Japanese term
Kage Bunshin no justu
Japanese to English
Art/Literary
Cinema, Film, TV, Drama
anime
A ninja technique, from a anime serie.
Proposed translations
(English)
4 +1 | Shadow Divisions Technique | Benjamin Wood |
4 -1 | 甲賀、分身の術 | wakako |
Proposed translations
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Shadow Divisions Technique
Sorry English only ^-^ This is from Naruto right?
Kage means "shadow," that is easy enough.
Bunshin, in the ninja usage, is when a ninja divides into a number of clones / images of himself and they all attack together. I called these "divisions" here just to keep it short, but something more flashy such as "Technique of the Multiple Shadow Images" or whatever might suit the material better.
Jutsu is "technique," "art" may also sound quite cool here.
With anime terms, you are often better off first working out what it means, and then finding something that sounds as cool in your target language rather than a literal translation, which often just sounds dry. If this is just out of personal interest, then I hope this helped ^-^
Kage means "shadow," that is easy enough.
Bunshin, in the ninja usage, is when a ninja divides into a number of clones / images of himself and they all attack together. I called these "divisions" here just to keep it short, but something more flashy such as "Technique of the Multiple Shadow Images" or whatever might suit the material better.
Jutsu is "technique," "art" may also sound quite cool here.
With anime terms, you are often better off first working out what it means, and then finding something that sounds as cool in your target language rather than a literal translation, which often just sounds dry. If this is just out of personal interest, then I hope this helped ^-^
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2 days 18 mins
甲賀、分身の術
I think “Kaga” may be correctly “Kouga”.
Japanese ninja style is generally divided into two schools, which are “Kouga” and “Iga”.
分身の術 is one of the most popular art used by ninja and showing a person who use the art as if he is in several people.
The phrase is often used in ninja cartoon before using the art to announce the character will use it.
I could find only Web references in Japanese, but they might be informative.
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Note added at 2 days 39 mins (2004-08-23 01:01:28 GMT)
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So in English, how about “Kouga, shadow art.”?
I found a website about ninja in English.
http://www.iganinja.jp/english/godou/flam.html
Japanese ninja style is generally divided into two schools, which are “Kouga” and “Iga”.
分身の術 is one of the most popular art used by ninja and showing a person who use the art as if he is in several people.
The phrase is often used in ninja cartoon before using the art to announce the character will use it.
I could find only Web references in Japanese, but they might be informative.
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Note added at 2 days 39 mins (2004-08-23 01:01:28 GMT)
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So in English, how about “Kouga, shadow art.”?
I found a website about ninja in English.
http://www.iganinja.jp/english/godou/flam.html
Peer comment(s):
disagree |
Benjamin Wood
: It is from anime, a charater's move that uses the kanji "kage". It is nothing to do with kouga ^-^
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