User talk:J. Murakami

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Japanese terminology
Thank you for your contributions to the articles on Kitabatake Akiie and Kitabatake Chikafusa. It is always great to meet people with similar interests, and to have a new person helping with such obscure and interesting topics. Please do be careful, however, with the application of Western-style terms to Japanese cases. Both Akiie and Chikafusa were indeed Japanese noblemen, as you wrote, but as we have terms such as kuge and samurai to describe the different kinds of Japanese nobles, these terms should be used to help describe them more accurately, as the word "nobleman" is an English word and implies a wide variety of English or European connotations. The same goes for the use of Governor instead of shugo - shugo in medieval Japan were very different people, with a very different post, from the modern-day governors of US States or Japanese prefectures.

Thanks again for your efforts, and welcome. LordAmeth 06:50, 22 July 2007 (UTC)