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[edit] Atsumori

Thank you for your expansion of my short article on the play Atsumori; I had not realized there was an infobox for Noh, and it's a fine addition. I suppose it depends on one's interpretation or translation, but the version of the play I read did not mention a "Reaper", but rather a "Youth", who burns firewood to collect salt out of seawater. There are references to a "mower", but a Reaper? Seems the wrong connotation to me, even if the denotation (reaper more or less equals mower) is correct. Thoughts? LordAmeth 22:47, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

The word "reaper" comes from the (outdated) Waley translation, which is quite emphatic that the people Kumagai meets are reapers: "They that were reaping,/Reaping on that hill,/Walk now through the fields/Homeward, for it is dusk." I've just checked and they're literally "grass-cutters" (草刈) so probably "mowers" would be better.
Yes, now there's an infobox template for Noh plays — I just made it. (So any questions or suggestions for alterations can be directed here.) My hope is to put up at least a dozen articles on the most famous plays. Xanthoxyl 09:34, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, I was using Royall Tyler's translation; these things can be kind of iffy. Thank you for your hard work - I continue to aim to gradually, slowly expand Wikipedia's coverage of kabuki and joruri; coverage of the traditional Asian arts is sorely lacking, and I'm glad to have yet another ally in working to resolve that. LordAmeth 11:52, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia's coverage of literature and of the arts in general is surprisingly poor. I'll see if I can improve Noh (the French version was a featured article!); also look in the margins for links to any Japanese versions. 12:23, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you for your translation work

Thank you very much for finishing the translation of Hannes Lintl and cleaning it up. I'm removing this entry from WP:PNT now. Cheers! - Introvert • ~ 04:17, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] thank you for you translation work

thank very much for doing the translation of the french article Vincent-Marie Viénot de Vaublanc that i have edited in french Aymeric78 20:34, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Friedrich Hopfner

Ack, I didn't mean to go sticking extra tags on there if you were working on it, sorry about that... I found the tag a few hours ago, and then the internet went down before I could actually save the edit adding it. I've translated about half of it at this point, though it needs massive cleanup and reorganizing still. I was planning to do that once I'd finished the translating, but I can edit in what I've done so far, if you want to work on that part, or translate the rest -- I'm starting to get in over my head with all the scientific terms. Let me know, and sorry again if I inadvertently took over what you were working on! -Bbik 03:59, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Ok, better idea. Your translating sounds better than mine anyhow, and it looks like we've both done about as much, though I did a bit more jumping around. I've put what I've done at this point here, copy or replace or ignore as you wish. -Bbik 04:09, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, I've learned my lesson! Don't worry about it, though -- if nothing else, it's shown me just how much my German has deteriorated, which is more frustrating than anything else. And besides, if my doing it as well reminded you about the infobox, that works out well enough. -Bbik 18:56, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Noh - Ikuta Atsumori

Hiya. I've just created an article for Ikuta Atsumori, another play based on the story of Atsumori. The translation I read does not explain which character is waki, tsure, or shite, so I sort of guessed. My logic being that Atsumori is shite because he's the title character, and the whole thing derives from his legend; his son might be waki, because he's the primary character other than Atsumori, and is not really his companion, so he couldn't be tsure, I don't think. The monk, though he introduces the play, and might therefore normally be the waki, more or less just accompanies the boy, and so I labeled him wakitsure. I'd appreciate it if you could take a second look at this. Thank you. LordAmeth 13:34, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Children are termed kokata, so the monk will be waki. The play is now attributed to Komparu Zenpō, and the Kita school does not perform it. Xanthoxyl 14:02, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your help! LordAmeth 14:08, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kapellmeister

Thanks for citing sources. Opus33 21:50, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

For clearing out a huge chunk of the articles that needed to be translated! -Yupik 13:18, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Meetup on 23rd April 2007

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[edit] Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote

I moved the subject page as you requested and removed the entry from Wikipedia:Requested moves. ●DanMS • Talk 23:34, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Vincent-Marie Viénot de Vaublanc

  • Salut. J'ai vu que tu as traduit cet article du français vers l'anglais et je t'en remercie. J'ai décidé de le présenter en tant qu'article de qualité.

Des commentaires ont été émis contre cet article. Parlant mal l'anglais peux-tu corriger et améliorer les défauts de cet article merci d'avance. Aymeric78 20:37, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] List of Noh plays

In List of Noh plays: A-M and the other one, what do the = signs signify? I ask because I am not sure how to interpret that for the bibliography section of Komparu Zenchiku. --Gwern (contribs) 01:50 12 November 2007 (GMT)

If a play has two names it is listed twice. For example, Adachi ga hara equals Kurozuka because they are the same play. I ought to mention that only a few plays are definitely known to be by a specific author, so don't be surprised if there are contradictions in source material. Xanthoxyl 02:14, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
That makes sense, although I personally prefer a 'or' instead of an '='. And I know what you mean by contradictions - they're there even for well-documented poets like Fujiwara no Teika, and it seems that for Noh plays things are even worse... --Gwern (contribs) 02:22 12 November 2007 (GMT)
I used "=" because of the risk that that "or" might be taken to be part of the title (Adachi ga hara or Kurozuka). In the kanji column the problem is in reverse because "=" looks like a character. The symbol "≠" appears once, I think.
Thanks for working on that article. I should write up some more plays. Xanthoxyl 02:48, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
Ah, I solve that by always italicizing the romaji phrases individually (to follow the usual style guideline that foreign words are italicized), so there's no ambiguity about whether the or is part of the title. --Gwern (contribs) 03:24 12 November 2007 (GMT)

[edit] Rokumeikan

I'd been thinking of creating an article on the Rokumeikan for some time, but didn't really have the time or the resources. Thanks for contributing this!!! LordAmeth 01:20, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Adelaide Wikimeetup 3

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Hi Xanthoxyl - we're planning a third meetup in Adelaide sometime in the coming weeks, and would love to have you there. If you can, please help decide a location, a date and a time here. Thanks! ~ Riana ⁂ 12:35, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Adelaide Wikimeetup 3

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[edit] Leopardian poetics

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It is so odd to commend someone on a single word years after the fact that I suspect I'm doing it to be odd, but thank you for describing the book Lady into Fox as "enigmatic". Not only is it very true, but no other adjective would likely have come even close. --Kizor 15:16, 18 May 2008 (UTC)