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General notes: You may notice that the bottom half of this character is the same as some other turtle-related titles. It has not been in common use in Korea for at least a few hundred years. In Korean, this character can be pronounced (though most Koreans would have to look it up in a dictionary). 鼈 is not a good selection for a wall scroll if your audience is Chinese. That term has come to mean 'bastard' in Chinese (a turtle hatches from an abandoned egg, and does not know who his mother or father is). Unfortunately, there is a word, 'wang ba dan' which means the egg of this species of turtle. In China, this species is related to the 'wang ba', a soft-shelled turtle sometimes known in English as a banjo turtle (due to its long neck, and general shape). A specific species, Trionyx Sinensis which is native to Asia. But rarely used as a single Kanji like this in Japanese.Ĭhinese: 鼈 means soft-shelled turtle. Japanese: 鼈 means 'snapping turtle' or 'mud turtle'. 鼈 refers to different turtles in different languages. Variants of the same characters are used in China for the rank and title of a General of the People's Liberation Army (and the same term and characters have been used for the last 2200 years since the Qin Dynasty). Sometimes a Shogun was a general, other times he was the leader of a military government in Japan - but not a front line warrior like a Samurai. Or effectively, a commanding officer of a company of Samurai - to put it in modern military terms. In this context, the Shogun was a Samurai lord. In the case of the Samurai, the Shogun was a designated (by the emperor) leader of a gild of Samurai. Often westerners use the words, Samurai and Shogun, interchangeably, but that's really not technically correct.

Japanese serenity symbol tv#

Some might even think of the TV mini-series with Richard Chamberlain.

In the west, when someone mentions 'Shogun' we may be filled with thoughts of gallant warriors. The title 'Shogun' has held some slightly ambiguous meanings at times in Japanese history. Shogun in the simplest definition is a General but you could also use words such as commander, lord, overlord, highest ranking, or commanding officer.