Recently, I saw a saying: Why do the Japanese name warships so Zen- and elegant? I don't agree with that.
We zen buddhism do not have such monks
Self-confidence, Zen Buddhism is on our side, Japan is Nichiren Buddhism, Pure Land Buddhism, Tendai Sect, not even Huineng Zen Master, where zen intention, can find a Buddha intention is good. The naming of Japan's World War II warships is based on the seasons, weather, mountains, ancient countries, and auspicious rui, and many of the terms are directly derived from Chinese culture or Japanese folklore.
Japanese destroyers are mostly named after the solar terms and natural weather, like "island wind", island wind is 2 ships, 1 wind type island wind, an island wind 2, this name has no special meaning, that is, "island に吹く風", blowing to the island wind.
A large row of fengfeng type is named after "wind", including:
Minefu | Sawafu | Oki Wind | Island wind | Nada-style | Yafu | Hafu | Shiodo | Autumn wind | Evening Wind | Tachi-style | Sail wind
Plus Feng Feng Reform, there are:
Nofu | Wave Wind | Swamp wind
In fact, the traces of this kind of name patchwork are obvious, and finding a noun that sounds good is a good one.
For example, "Feng" and "Peak" used to be a Chinese variant, and the other "Ze, Chong, Island, Beach, Ya, Feather, Tide, Tai Dao, Sail, Wild, Wave, Swamp" are all the same thing, and the literal meaning is not mizusawa, water flow, island, beachhead, arrow, feather, evening tide, tai knife, sail, wilderness, wave, swamp and so on.
There is also a kamikaze type in front of it, all of which are named after the "wind" of a water:
Kamikaze | Morning Breeze | Spring Breeze | Matsukaze | Flag-style | Tailwind | Gale | asanagi | evening calm
These terms all have meaning, but they do not contain much depth, "kamikaze" Everyone knows that the two kamikazes of the Japanese archipelago destroyed Kublai Khan's invading fleet and allowed Japan to escape the disaster of the Mongols, so they worship kamikazes very much.
Towards the wind, the wind in the morning. Spring wind, spring wind. Pine wind, wind between pine forests. Flag wind, a long wind that can blow a big flag. Chasing the wind, chasing the wind in the turbulent years, what do you say? Windstorm, Naruto cough Sun Tzu's art of war all know, right? Wind forest volcano, its speed is like the wind.
As for the word "凪", this is a Japanese kanji, something that the Japanese themselves pieced together, pronounced "Naji", which means "calm wind and waves", that is, there is no wind. It is not difficult to understand the meaning of such a pilgrimage and a sunset, right?
What is in front of the kamikaze? It is the "mutsu moon type" of the "moon" generation:
Mutsuki | Kisaragi | Yayoi | | Uzuki | Mizunizu Notsuki | Bunzuki | | Kikugetsu | Crescent | Mochizuki | Evening Moon
These "moons" are arranged according to the calendar, all of which are traditional Oriental cultures, and there is no Buddha Zen at all.
"Muzuki" has the meaning of harmony and harmony, and is a rare surname in Japan, representing January.
"Ruyue" stands for February, which is completely imported from China.
"Yayoi" and good manuscripts, eugenic intentions, and Japanese works in March.
"卯月" takes the arrangement in the branches of heaven and dry earth, so it is April, and it is ugly and ugly.
"Gao Yue" is May, it is said that this "Gao" is the meaning of "Gao Drum", and also known as "Mo", is the ancient Chinese gathering of the people's drum, because it is often used in the planting of seedlings, so it has some allusive significance, after being learned by Japan, it is also used as a synonym for May, indicating that the time for planting seedlings has arrived.
"Water without moon" is a popular Japanese expression of the month, which means that in June, the weather is hot, and there will be drought and lack of water.
"Wenyue" represents July, which comes from the Tanabata Festival, but in China, it is generally called Qiaoyue, Lanyue, and Xiangyue.
(According to the Japanese month, there was originally an August "leaf moon" after July, which means that the leaves have begun to change color or fall, but there is no one in the warship.) ）
"Three days and months" refers to the crescent moon for three days before and after the third day of the first lunar calendar, or specifically refers to the moon on the third day of the first three days of August.
"Long Moon" represents September, the Japanese believe that the night will begin to grow longer in September, as the name suggests, China is called the laurel moon, the full moon.
"Juyue" is also a Chinese port, and September is called Juyue in China.
"Looking at the moon" is also a word in the lunar calendar, which calls the fifteenth day of each month the day of hope, that is, the full moon, the fifteenth moon.
Xiyue refers to the evening moon, and in ancient China also refers to a ritual of emperor worshipping the heavens, such as Zheng Xuan of the Han Dynasty to give a note to the Zhou Li: "The son of heaven should be the spring equinox and the autumn equinox." ”
The Mutsuki type is preceded by the "Snow Blowing Type", but this model uses "Snow", "Wave", "Cloud", and "Fog":
Blizzard | Snow White | First snow | Deep Snow | Soun | Shinonome | Thin Clouds | Hakuun | Isami | Uranami | Ayanami | Shikinami | Asagiri | Yugiri | Tengiri | Narrow Fog | Oboro | Akebono | 漣 | tide
All of them are descriptions of meteorological and natural phenomena, and there is no "Zen machine" at all. Are you right?
There are also modifications of the snow blowing type, using simple words:
| | Ray | Electricity (晓, 响, thunder, electricity), their meaning is no different from the Chinese characters,
The early spring type is also named after the solar terms and the sun:
Early Spring | Child's Day | Wakaba | First frost
It is needless to say what the early spring and the first frost are, Wakaba refers to the rice and wheat that have just been drawn, and the sub-day is a term in the Chinese Tiangandi Ji Ri method.
After reading the destroyers, look at the light patrol, the Japanese light patrol is mainly the Tenryu class, the Ball Mill class, the Nagara class, the Agano class, the Kawauchi class, the Katori class, and the Ninghai class, these light cruises are basically all named after the Japanese rivers.
(The Ninghai class is more special, and the admirals should all know that these two were light patrols ordered by the Former Nationalist Government in 918 to Japan, with two ships, Ninghai and Pinghai, which were later sunk in battle, and after the Japanese army fished them up, they were converted into eighty islands and five hundred islands in 1944 to participate in the war, and were successively sunk by the US army.) ）
Some of the names in the light tour, such as "Ghost Fury", "Divine Power", "Tianlong", "Nake", etc., seem to make people feel a hint of the taste of Buddhist scriptures, but these are all rivers, if placed on the Chinese side, just like the names of Fuhe, YudaiHe, Patrol Sihe, Jushui River, Santai River, Zhanghe River, Qingjiang River, Lushui, Lushui, Pouring Water, Bashui, Huanshui, hanshui.
The two ships of the Tianlong class are called "Tianlong" and "Longtian", perhaps Tianlong can also rub on the "Eight Heavenly Dragons" of the Buddhist scriptures, and the funniest self-media explanation I have ever seen is "Tianlong Eight Parts" and "See the Dragon in the Field"... However, the name "Ryuda" comes from the Tatsuta River in Nara Prefecture and is a place name. "Tenryu" is also a place name, and the name of the ship is derived from the Tenryu River in Shizuoka Prefecture, which is injected into the Far State Beach.
A few more columns:
Ball Mill: Ball Mill River in Kumamoto Prefecture.
Tama: Nagare Kanagawa-uki Tama River.
Kitakami: The Kitakami River flows through Miyagi Prefecture and Iwate Prefecture.
Ōi: Ōi River in central Shizuoka Prefecture.
Kiso: The Kiso River, which flows through the East China Sea.
Nagara: The Nagara River, a river in the Kiso River system.
Isuzu: The Isuzu River in Mie Prefecture.
Natori: The Natori River in Miyagi Prefecture.
Yura: The Yura River in the northern part of Kyoto Prefecture.
Oni Fury: The Oni Nu River that flows through Tochigi Prefecture and Ibaraki Prefecture.
Abukuma: The Abukuma River flows through Fukushima Prefecture and Miyagi Prefecture.
Kawauchi: The Kawauchi River flows through Kumamoto, Miyazaki, and Kagoshima prefectures.
Divine Powers: The Kamiko River flows through Gifu Prefecture and Toyama Prefecture.
Nako: The Naka River flows through Tochigi Prefecture and Ibaraki Prefecture.
As for "Eighty Islands" and "Five Hundred Islands", it is completely unknown which name to take, it may be used to refer to the terrain around Toyama, Fukui Prefecture, Tokyo, or the terrain of the island of Japan, some saying that there are eighty islands and five hundred islands, similar to the Koreans saying "three thousand miles of rivers and mountains", or Chinese say "billion miles of Shenzhou".
At that time, Japan was mainly the Kohawk class, the Aoba class, the Myo senior, the Kaohsiung level, the most senior level, and the Reigan level. Unlike light patrols, in addition to using "chuan", heavy patrols also use "mountains".
Koyō: Koying Mountain in Edajima City, Hiroshima Prefecture.
Kagu: Kako River in Hyogo Prefecture.
Aoba: Mount Aoba in Kasa-gun, Kyoto Prefecture.
Kinugasa: Mt. Kinugasa, Kanagawa.
Myoko: Myoko Mountain in Niigata Prefecture.
Nachi: Nachiyama in Wakayama Prefecture.
Ashigara: Mt. Ashigara in Hakone, Kanagawa.
Haguro: Yamagata Hajiriyama.
Kaohsiung: The name of Kaohsiung is considered by many to be Kaohsiung, Taiwan, but it is actually the Kaohsiung Mountain in Kyoto.
Atago: It is also Kyoto's Mount Atago.
Maya: Mt. Maya in Hyogo Prefecture.
Mogami: Konarai Yamagata Mogami River, Matsuo Basho's Haiku: "The Mogami River in May Rains" (Shuku Summer Rain, Wakuwaku Mogami River).
Mikuma: MikumaGawa in Oita Prefecture.
Rigen: The Rigen River in the Kanto region
Chikuma: The Chikumo River flows through the upper reaches of the Shinano River in Niigata and Nagano prefectures
The naming of battleships of the Japanese Navy is also easy to cause misunderstanding, such as Yamato, Musashi, Nagato, and Mutsu, which make people realize that "Zen Machine" is obviously impossible, but it is also easy to cause misunderstanding, in fact, they are mostly named according to the "ancient name".
For example, "Yamato", which many people understand as "Yamato nation", actually represents Nara Prefecture, which used to have a very early Yamato kingdom, which is considered to be the beginning of Japan, hence the name.
Yamato's sister "Musashi", also named after an ancient civilization with historical culture, originated from "Musashino" in central Kanto, which is now a satellite town in Tokyo, and because of the traces of the prehistoric kingdom, it is considered to be the "beginning of Tokyo" and was an important military production base during World War II.
Nagato, the viceroy's favorite, was also the ancient name of the country, the former "Choshu", which was merged with other places after the Meiji Restoration to form Yamaguchi Prefecture.
Nagato, blown up by the atomic bomb
The Nagato-level "Mutsu" is the same as Nagato, and it is also an ancient imperial state, that is, "Oshu", and Fukushima Prefecture, Miyagi Prefecture, Iwate Prefecture, Aomori Prefecture, and Akita Prefecture are its ancient territories.
The name of "Fuso" is more mysterious, after all, it is an older warship, Fuso is the ancient Chinese synonym for a sacred tree living in the East China Sea, and later changed to a Japanese pronoun, the Japanese named the battleship Fuso, nothing more than faith.
The second ship of "Fuso", "Yamashiro", returned to the ancient rules of naming the country, its name originated from the ancient "Yamashiro Kingdom", "Heian Kyo" is in yamashiro, Emperor Huanwu set up Heian Kyo when he saw this place is very dangerous, like Yamaguchi, it is called "Yamashiro", one of the five Japanese.
The name "Kongo" is the closest to Buddhism, but the name of the Japanese warship "Kongo" comes from Mount Kumgang at the junction of Nara and Osaka, which is the highest peak in Osaka, consisting of the three peaks of Katsuki- Mt. Katsugi, Mt. Izumi, and Mt. Ōhito, which used to be called Mt. Takama, Mt. Takatensan, and Mt. Katsugi, and the mountain is known as the "Shinri domain of Japan", that is, the mythical "Takamahara".
It may be because there is a Zhuan Falun Temple, which received some Buddhist incense, so Mount Kumgang got its name, and some people use Mount Kumgang in Korea to explain the naming of warships, which is really a thousand miles.
Hiei is the No. 2 ship of Kongo, whose name is derived from Mount Hiei in Kyoto, a Buddhist-related name but also related to China. Mt. Hiei is also known as "Tendai Mountain" in Japan and is said to be the most famous of the Tendai Sect's sect in Japan.
The Ship "Haruna" (榛名), whose name derives from Mount Haruna in Gunma Prefecture, is known as the "Kami-Mao Sanzan" (じょうもうさんざ上毛野三大山, the other two being Myōi and Akagi) in Gunma Prefecture), is a dormant volcano that erupted during the reign of Emperor Xiaowen of northern Wei, and this mountain is also known as "Haruna Fuji", one of Mount Fuji.
Kirishima Mountain Range
Kirishima is Haruna's sister ship, Kirishima is not a foggy island, but Mt. Kirishima at the junction of Miyazaki Prefecture and Kagoshima, a whole group of active volcanoes, known as "Kirishima Mountains", its highest peak is called "Mt. Korea", and "Shin-Ringatake" is still erupting from time to time.
The name of the battleship "Ise" is not small, this name ship comes from the Ise Kingdom of Mie Prefecture, and has the meaning of Ise Jingu Shrine, which enshrines the artifact Hachimitsu Mirror. According to the Nihon Shoki Yun: After the arrival of Tensun (The Chinese Tensun refers to Vega, and the Japanese Tensun refers to the grandson of Amaterasu, Qiong Qiong, the grandson of the God of Amaterasu), the god Amaterasu was enshrined in the imperial palace by successive emperors, but when it came to the time of the Emperor of the Gods, he moved the god out of the throne because he was afraid of the god Amaterasu.
So there was an imperial daughter named "Uchihime" who ran out to find the "seat of town" for the god Amaterasu, and she searched all over the kingdom of Amaterasu, yamato, Iga, Tanba, Owari, Mino, and Awakai, until she found Ise, and Amaterasu sent down an oracle: "It is the kamikaze Ise country, then the waves of the world return to the country, and the poor country of the country is also a country that wants to live." As a result, Uchihime built a "Isuzu Palace" on the side of the Isuzu River, and Ise Jingu Shrine was born.
The Ise-class battleship No. 2 "Hyuga" also originated from the ancient commanding state "Hyuga Country", which is a quasi-aircraft carrier in today's Self-Defense Forces. In legend, hyuga kingdom is the place where tiansun Qiongqiong pestle came down, leaving the Takachiho Gorge.
The names of aircraft carriers are much more complicated, and the Japanese do not seem to have a completely unified caliber, basically doing whatever they want.
For example, the "Akagi" aircraft carrier, introduced earlier when "Haruna" was introduced, originated from mount Akagi in the "Three Mountains of Kami-Mao", which is a volcano.
Suddenly remembering the Akagi aircraft carrier that was blown up by a wave of blowing up during the Battle of Midway, it was like a volcanic eruption
Another example is the "Dragon Dragon" aircraft carrier, its name is taken from the Chinese character meaning "mighty like a dragon straight up into the clouds".
"Fengxiang" is Japan's first aircraft carrier, but also the world's earliest aircraft carrier, Japan called it "Fengxiang", has the meaning of "phoenix spread its wings and fly". However, this "phoenix" refers not only to warships, but also to japanese aircraft carriers, and names such as aircraft carriers have the meaning of wishing for carrier-based aircraft.
The same is true of "Xianghe", the name of the ship contains the meaning of "soaring crane in the sky"; Ruihe, the name of the ship is a combination of Rui, which represents "festivity", and crane, which symbolizes longevity;
There are many names for such aircraft carriers:
"Flying Dragon", a dragon flying in the sky;
"Dragon of the Sky", the Dragon of the Sky;
"Cloud Dragon", the dragon in the clouds;
"Big phoenix", the Japanese army called it "unsinkable empty mother", pinning the meaning of "immortal bird", Japan also called the phoenix "big bird".
"Heavenly City", the City of Heaven, the City of Heaven, also has the meaning of Gao Tianyuan;
"Kaga", derived from the old name of ishikawa Prefecture, Kaga Kingdom;
"Shinano" derives from the old name of shinano country;
(Note: Amagi, Kaga, and Shinano were all changed by battleships, so the "national name" was used as the name of the ship, and there was a regular empty mother "Amagi" in the back, which should have inherited the name of the former Amagi Castle, after all, the front one was burned before it was completed.) ”）
"Ruifeng", the early name was the oil tanker "Takasaki", later changed to an aircraft carrier, the name of the ship is the meaning of the phoenix of Xiangrui.
"Xiang Feng" is also the meaning of Xiang Rui's phoenix.
"Dragon and phoenix", the meaning of dragon and phoenix, auspicious in xiangrui.
"Katsuragi", related to Mount Katsura in Nara Prefecture, is also part of Takatenhara Kamiyama, but it is not the meaning of Katsuragi Misato's big sister.
"Hayabusa", "Hayabusa" is a bird of prey, but also a term that the Japanese especially like to use, such as some people will name it "Hayato", this aircraft carrier was previously called "Kashiwara Maru", Kashihara is the name of a city in Nara, there is also a well-known Kashiwara Jingu.
The "Flying Eagle" used to be the passenger ship "Izumo Maru", and the Flying Eagle is actually no different from the Falcon Eagle.
The two aircraft carriers "Chitose" and "Chiyoda" were both transformed from "seaplane carriers", "Chitose" refers to the prayer for the inheritance of thousands of generations, and "Chiyoda" refers to "Chiyo Arita", or refers to Edo Castle.
There are also many "eagle" characters in the Japanese aircraft carrier, anyway, "phoenix", "crane", "eagle" is the three most popular names of the Japanese air mother, it is obvious that the Japanese especially like these three kinds of birds, not auspicious, immortal birds, or fierce birds of prey.
"Big eagle", big eagle.
"Cloud Eagle", an eagle on the clouds.
"Rush eagle", sprint eagle.
"Condor", a god-like eagle.
"Sea Eagle", the eagle of the sea.
This set of roads, we are familiar with is not it? The navy of any country has a bunch of sea hawks and eagles and the like.
There's also a bunch of miscellaneous aircraft carriers:
"Rijin": This is a modified seaplane and a small submarine mothership with armor standards, so it has been given a lot of pioneering sustenance, and the name of the ship has the meaning of "day and night, every day upward".
"Rui Grain", which is also a mothership of the koji, is a word that the Japanese like to use, meaning that rice produces rich ears, which has nothing to do with Buddhism.
"Fast suction" auxiliary aircraft carrier, oil tanker modification. The name derives from the Japanese name for the Toyo Strait, a waterway that connects the Pacific Ocean with the Seto Inland Sea, and is known to the Japanese as "Quick Sucking Seto", which was previously the name of "Fast Suction" as an oil tanker.
There are also seaplane carriers "Kamui" and "Notoru", which are also oil tankers, "Kamui" is a refueling ship built in the United States, which was later changed to a seaplane mothership, and the name of the ship "Kamui" comes from Cape Kanway in Hokkaido; the name of "Notoru" comes from Cape Notoru on Sakhalin Island.
"Akitsu-chau" is also a seaplane \ airship mothership, the name of "Akitsu-chau" is the name of the ancient Japanese Honshu, and later the Japanese Army also built a "Akitsu Maru" aircraft carrier in order to disgust the Navy.
Then it is here, basically the Japanese warships of World War II are pickpocketed, if there is a mistake, welcome to exchange.