Need a word or phrase translated?

[Toritoribe]

Can anyone help me with the translation of 好チクリンな事件?

Isn't it 妙チクリン?

 

[zeroh4nter]

隊士の目もある
Appreciates if someone could explain what does this part really mean for me , i met this in a conversation between 2 officers of a samurai group/party . One criticizing other that he's been drinking too much sake.

Officer A「芹沢さん。今日も酒ですか」
Officer B「うふふ……だって、身体にお酒を入れておかないと調子が悪いんだもん」
Officer A「それにしたって毎日毎日、飲み過ぎでしょう。隊士の目もある。少しは控えて頂きたい」

 

[Toritoribe]

～の目がある is a set expression for not to do inappropriate behavior because they are watching.

e.g.
親の目があるから、家ではゲームができない。
人の目があるから、外ではきちんとした格好をした方がいい。

Judging from 芹沢, 隊士, and Serizawa's female wordings, is that a parody of 新選組?

 

[zeroh4nter]

～の目がある is a set expression for not to do inappropriate behavior because they are watching.

e.g.
親の目があるから、家ではゲームができない。
人の目があるから、外ではきちんとした格好をした方がいい。

Judging from 芹沢, 隊士, and Serizawa's female wordings, is that a parody of 新選組?

i don't know much about JP history, so i can't tell if the author was trying to make a parody or not, but yes this novel is talking about that political samurai group

 

[zeroh4nter]

I met a coined word by the author of a story i read 悶科省 , i can only guess it mean something like "The ministry of .... for succubus"
Hope someone could help me identify its meaning correctly.
Context: A teacher from a succubus academy is explaining why she summoned the protagonist to her world. She need his help to prevent her school being closed down, due to her students are having a low "sexy score"
「私達サキュバスの国、リリンガルドの悶科省が我が校のエロ偏差値が低いことを理由に、一年後廃校することを決定してまったんです……」

 

[Toritoribe]

悶科省（もんかしょう） is a pun of 文科省（もんかしょう）, which is the abbreviation of 文部科学省 Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. 悶（＝もだえる） means "to squirm, writhe, wriggle or moan (in a sexual sense)" there.

 

[Crio97]

Isn't it 妙チクリン?

Yes it was, I must have misread it due to lack of concentration.
So I'm assuming it means strange, weird or mysterious right? I'm still confused about that チクリン.

 

[Toritoribe]

Yes, you can think it's an emphasized form of 妙. There are words of the similar structure such like へんちくりん or ちんちくりん. It's said that both ちく(or ちき) and りん are a suffix to give a nuance of teasing or making fun of the object.

 

[zeroh4nter]

ベテラン勢の多い戦闘機乗りからすれば
This 1 part in a novel make me feel hard to understand, appreciates somebody who could correct my mistakes if my understanding was wrong. My guess but not sure : "If comparing her to other veteran's skills, those piloted many different jet-fighter ,it seems she's still look like a novice pilot."

Story: A character is narrating his thought about a Leader of jet-fighter pilot team, who he met for the first time.
K-sanはこの艦のエースパイロットで、パイロット歴は十数年くらいのベテランだ。
年齢的には３０代前半といったところだが、ベテラン勢の多い戦闘機乗りからすれば、まだまだ若輩者として見られるだろう。

 

[Toritoribe]

It's parsed as ベテラン勢の多い / 戦闘機乗り. 戦闘機乗り means "fighter pilot", and ベテラン勢の多い modifies 戦闘機乗り.
e.g.
船乗り（ふなのり）: sailor
飛行機乗り: (airplane) pilot
空中ブランコ乗り: trapeze rider

女子の少ないクラス： a class with few girls
雨の多い季節： rainy season
家賃の安いアパート： cheap apartment

 

[Crio97]

I need help with the translation of a title of a series of ukiyo-e from Hokusai.
The title is the following: 春興五十三駄之内.
I tried to look up the ukiyo-e online, but it seems to be called "Untitled series from the 53 Tokaido Stations" but this seems quite the quaint translation to me. First of all, there's no mention of the Tokaido at all as far as I'm aware, if not for the number 53.
Also 春興 should have a meaning close to spring fun or spring leisure, which doesn't get mentioned in the title.
Does anyone have any idea how to translate this?
Thank you.

 

[Majestic]

春興 = Shunkyō. It's a type of gift given for New Year's. In the lunar calendar , New Year's comes almost at the end of winter, so spring is just a few weeks away, hence the "spring" in the title.

Edited to add that 春興 is probably meant to be understood as 春興摺物 "Prints for New Year's". It's just that on the actual print itself the "摺物" ("prints") is omitted because its already understood.

駄の内 = number X of a series of X. The kanji 駄 in this case means "things" in a group/collection. (I think). It's not used in this way anymore. So the translation would just be "number X of a series of 53".

 

[Crio97]

春興 = Shunkyō. It's a type of gift given for New Year's. In the lunar calendar, New Year's comes almost at the end of winter, so spring is just a few weeks away, hence the "spring" in the title.

Edited to add that 春興 is probably meant to be understood as 春興摺物 "Prints for New Year's". It's just that on the actual print itself the "摺物" ("prints") is omitted because its already understood.

駄の内 = number X of a series of X. The kanji 駄 in this case means "things" in a group/collection. (I think). It's not used in this way anymore. So the translation would just be "number X of a series of 53".

Thanks for the info!
So, would you translate it as "Number X of a series of 53 New Year's Prints"? Where Number X means we don't have the knowledge of what number in the series that specific print is?

 

[Majestic]

There should be a location name after 五十三駄の内. Something like "Yoshida from a series of 53" or "Fujikawa from a series of 53".
So the translation will depend on which print (or prints) you have.
You could omit the location and just say "One From a Series of 53"

 

[Toritoribe]

春興五十三駄之内

Here's an explanation about the title of this series.

このシリーズの最初の形態は、東海道の各宿駅図に、それぞれの地域に因ちなんだ狂歌―乃至数首とその狂歌師名とを添えた様式。この初摺様式作品は極めて希少で、全揃いと見られるものは、墨田区所蔵の帖体裁の一本が知られるのみ。これも帖装の際、上下左右をトリミングし、原装幀は不明。ただ他に残る稀少の数点中「鞠子」「藤枝」の枠外に「春興五十三春興五十三駄（ママ）之内」と摺刷があり、一応これが総合シリーズ名とされている。

https://www.syokubunka.or.jp/publication/gallery/nishikie/detail/post079.html

Thus, it's unknown what the original printed style of this series was. However, there were two rare prints that had this title at the edge of the prints, which were cut off in the book-style prints, so it's considered that this would be the title of this series.

春興五十三駄之内 is usually read しゅんきょうごじゅうさんえきのうち, so 駄 means "station" here (this is a rare usage, though).

It's quite well known that 53 was the number of stations of Tokaido, so "53 stations" automatically refers to "53 stations of Tokaido" even without mentioning "Tokaido".

 

[Majestic]

I totally misread one of the meanings for 駄. I guess it was once used as a counter for freight put on horseback, and in my mind I must have thought that it could have also been used as a counter for things.

 

[TurkeySloth]

Thanks for all the help thus far, guys.

As I've mentioned before, I'll be streaming in the future. One of my content endeavors will be a Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel challenge run known as Master Duel Masochist, during which players can only open the Master Packs and Legacy Packs received from victories after an initial allotment of Master Packs (in my case ten). My intro/read-in will showcase my fascination with foreign languages by having translations of my words appear on the screen in three languages one at a time. The entire bit's below for your understanding, even though I'm only considering Japanese (along with French and Italian) for the third line. If I choose Japanese, what as the proper calligraphic (not sure if it'd be Hiragana, Katakana, or Kanji) and Rōmaji translations of "let's find out during MASTER DUEL MASOCHIST"?

What is a deck? (German: Was ist ein Deck?)
Forty-to-sixty cards of… fun? misery? (Spanish: Cuarenta a sesenta cartas/tarjetas de… )
Let's find out during Master Duel Masochist. (Unknown: … Master Duel Masochist.)

 

[zeroh4nter]

大きく颯爽として落ち着いていた
i met this part in a novel i read but find it hard to understand, hope someone could translate into English, or rewrite into Japanese in an easier sentence to understand !!

霊廟の屋根は、この街で一番高い場所だ。
許可なく登るのは固く禁じられているそこへ、厳罰を物の数とも思わないで入り込む者がいた。
？「いそいで、あいり！早くしないといっちゃうよ！」
小さく愛らしく動き回る乙女は、まるで栗鼠か兎のようだ。
愛莉「おうか、慌てなくても充分間に合う。はしゃぎすぎると屋根から落ちるから気をつけろ」
後ろに続くもう一人の乙女は、大きく颯爽として落ち着いていた。いうなれば狼か虎の仔。
桜香「ほら、あれよ。見て！」
桜香と呼ばれた小さい方が、屋根の端から身を乗り出して、遠くを指差す。

 

[Crio97]

Hi everyone.
I'm back with an Hokusai ukiyo-e title question
The title is:
不弍峰図

I'm not finding any reference online to this being a name or anything.
I thought maybe 不弍 could be read Fuji and thus be another way to write Mt. Fuji, maybe an ancient one. And 峰 could simply mean peak. So the title would be: Illustration of Fuji's Peak/Summit.
The art does show a mountain in the background after all.
What do you guys think? Am I missing something?
Thanks!

 

[Majestic]

I thought maybe 不弍 could be read Fuji and thus be another way to write Mt. Fuji

You are correct. It is a kind of poetic allusion to Mt. Fuji.

 

[squirrelbombs]

Hello, I need help translating a phrase in Mandarin to Japanese. This is what I've got from various translation apps. But I'm not sure which is the closest to how a native would speak.
The phrase in Mandarin means "Stupid! You got tricked!(笨蛋！你中计了！）" A few of the Japanese translations I found were:

1. バカ野郎、騙されたんだ！(DeepL)
2. バカ野郎、罠にはまったぞ！(Talking Translator)
3. バカ野郎、罠にはまったんだよ！(Google Translate)

Can any senpai advise please? Thank you!

 

[Mikawa Ossan]

Hello, I need help translating a phrase in Mandarin to Japanese. This is what I've got from various translation apps. But I'm not sure which is the closest to how a native would speak.
The phrase in Mandarin means "Stupid! You got tricked!(笨蛋！你中计了！）" A few of the Japanese translations I found were:

1. バカ野郎、騙されたんだ！(DeepL)
2. バカ野郎、罠にはまったぞ！(Talking Translator)
3. バカ野郎、罠にはまったんだよ！(Google Translate)

Can any senpai advise please? Thank you!

It would be somewhat context specific. 1. above is more literal to the English "You go tricked" or deceived or scammed. 2 and 3 literally mean "You fell into a/the trap" with different nuance surrounding the underlying meaning. 中计 can mean either of the two meanings, which is the main reason I say it's context specific. Also, is the "you" a comrade or an enemy? If it's a comrade, I would drop the 野郎.

 

[nicosberse]

Hello!

I love the japanese culture and animes, planning a trip to Japan next year. Friday I am also getting several animes tattoo'd on my arm and one of them is a quote from One Piece: "A man dies when he is forgotten", which I managed to get translated to: "人は忘れられたときに死ぬ".

I'd love to know if the translation is correct and also, the area of the tattto is vertical, so I'd like to gently request if anyone could put it into a vertical position, if possible. I truly appreciate that.

Have a lovely Sunday!

 

[mdchachi]

Hello!

I love the japanese culture and animes, planning a trip to Japan next year. Friday I am also getting several animes tattoo'd on my arm and one of them is a quote from One Piece: "A man dies when he is forgotten", which I managed to get translated to: "人は忘れられたときに死ぬ".

I'd love to know if the translation is correct and also, the area of the tattto is vertical, so I'd like to gently request if anyone could put it into a vertical position, if possible. I truly appreciate that.

Have a lovely Sunday!

I'm not a native speaker but I think it's a reasonable translation. As for vertical, it's all the same characters but in vertical orientation.
人
は
忘
れ
ら
れ
た
と
き
に
死
ぬ

 

[Achilles 1-1]

Could you translate these?

Ryūjin no ken wo kūrae

Ryū ga waga teki kurau