With the wide spread of Japanese anime or dimensional IP around the world, it has also led to the export of Japanese culture. Especially in modern blood games and comics, the "middle two winds" in East Asian countries are widely popular, for example, Japanese people often like to add some exaggerated prefix nicknames when introducing certain specific groups of people, and these prefix nicknames often add some of the most advanced, so that people can see that there is a kind of hot blood in the second wind.
Introduce the 055 destroyer with the middle two winds
Japanese people love table tennis, and although they are surpassed by China today, it still does not affect their love of table tennis. Therefore, with this kind of fan mentality, they will also call Chinese athletes some nicknames with respect or ridicule to show that they value their opponents.
For example, Zhang Yining, who once cried fukuhara's love, is known as the "strongest queen", The Olympic champion coach Liu Guoliang is known as the "Imperial Billiards Commander", the Olympic champion Zhang Jike is called the "Empire Absolute Fierce Tiger", and his teammate Ma Long is also called the "Empire Destruction Dragon".
Imperial Tiger Zhang Jike
However, the Japanese take the nickname of blood is not a modern one, as early as the Warring States period, The Japanese military generals gave themselves various nicknames of fierceness and middle two.
Let's start with personal nicknames, animals are popular.
In terms of personal nicknames, warriors will favor their nicknames toward ferocious beasts to show their bravery. This animal is mainly dominated by land beasts. For example, "Dragon Tiger Lion" and the like. For example, Japan's Kanto Mio - Echigo's dragon Uesugi Kenshin, Kai's tiger Takeda Shingen, and Sagami's lion Hojo Clan Yasushi, the three are named after animals.
Kanto Mio's nickname is "Dragon Tiger Lion."
The Japanese dragon is a symbol of xiangrui and the king, and there are not many people who dare to take the dragon in general, except for the Warring States military god Uesugi Kenshin, that is, the slogan shouted very wildly - "twenty years early birth" Date Masamune. Date Masamune's nickname is more from the appearance of the seal than from the same record as Uesugi Kenshin.
One-Eyed Dragon Date Masamune
Ancient Japanese people used the hunting of tigers as the symbol of warriors, so the martial arts called tigers will not have too low personal combat values. In addition to Takeda Shingen, there was also Tiger Kato - Kato Kiyomasa, and Takeda Shingen, Kato Kiyoyoshi was the one who really fought tigers, and during the occupation of Korea, he often crossed the border to the Jurchen tribe to fight tigers, and it is said that he also liked to eat tiger meat (which tasted really heavy), and in order to ensure the problem of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's heirs, Kato Kiyomasa often sent tiger whips to Toyotomi Hideyoshi to mend his body.
Kiyomasa Kato, who likes to fight tigers, is a tiger terminator
Of course, in addition to these animals, such as Hizen Kumae Ryuzoji Takanobu, Viper Saito Michizo, and Izumo No. Oka Yamanaka Shikanosuke, are all daimyō warriors nicknamed after animals.
Nicknamed "Viper", Saito Michizo
In addition to the animal name, the supernatural (ghost god) nickname is also indispensable.
Among them, the nickname of the ghost character is the most common, such as one of the four generals of the Tokugawa family, The outer name of Ii Naomasa is the red ghost of Ii, and the nickname of the famous general Shimazu Yoshihiro is also called Onishi Manko. The Chinese daimyō Hatano Muneko is also known as the Tanba Ghost. In addition to the "ghost" called the night fork, there are also many, such as the Takeda family will be the original Tiger Yin is known as the Mino night fork, Tozawa Sheng'an nicknamed the night fork Guro.
Onishi Manzishima Yoshihiro Tsuyoshi
In addition to these nicknames, there are also some of the most senior nicknames to describe the bravery of certain warriors, such as Sanada Yukimura, the first soldier of the Sengoku period, Tachibana Muneshige of Nishikuni, and Yoshimoto Imagawa, the first bow of tokaido.
Nishiki NoBitsu Tachibana Muneshige (documentary stills)
In later generations, many Sengoku enthusiasts often nicknamed their idols, such as Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was known as the "First Bow of Kaido", and Oda Nobunaga was the "Sixth Demon King". However, the nickname is also inaccurate, some people hold it up and some people step on it, and in the mouths of Tokugawa opponents, Tokugawa Ieyasu is often given nicknames such as "old fox" and "old turtle" to mock Tokugawa Ieyasu's old treacherous giant and win the world by boiling. For those who oppose Toyotomi Hideyoshi, they also often use words such as "monkey" and "foot light soldier" to make personal mockery.
Tokugawa Ieyasu, known as the old fox
Then there is the collective nickname of the samurai.
Just like the 100 single and eight generals of Liangshan and the 24 heroes of Lingyunkaku, the Japanese also valued collective nicknames, such as 7 people, such as Kato Kiyomasa and Fukushima Masanori, who played the best role in the pursuit battle in the late stage of the Battle of Mt. Takayama, and were appreciated by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and were collectively known as the "Seven Guns of Mt. Takashi". It also begins with seven, and the seven osaka generals (wild) hoshi (daddy) who fought the toyotomi regime in Osaka and Tokugawa Ieyasu also begin with "seven". The Tokugawa clan, on the other hand, bestowed the title of "Tokugawa 16 Shogun" on its 16 vassals in recognition of their support for the Tokugawa clan.
The last glory of the Toyotomi family, the Osaka Seven Generals
In the combination, the Japanese like to use four, because Japan believes in Buddhism and worships the four heavenly kings, so for those four combinations, they are named after the four heavenly kings.
For example, the famous Tokugawa Shitensei kings - Sakai Tadaji, Honda Tadatsukatsu, Shén Hara Yasumasa, and Ii Naomasa. In addition to the Tokugawa Four Heavenly Kings, there were also the Four Heavenly Kings of Tachibana , Tenshi Lianzhen , Yuki Nobu nobu, Andong Ietatsu and Takano Daisan , takeda Four Heavenly Kings — Baba Nobunaga (Nobunaga), Naito Masatoshi (Masahide), Yamagata Masayoshi, Takasaka Masanobu , and The Four Heavenly Kings of Ryuzoji Temple — Kinoshita Masanaga, Hyakutake Kenshin, Seimatsu Nobunaga, Eriguchi Nobunaga, and Genjoji Nobuyoshi (actually 5, who later continued to use the title of Four Heavenly Kings for the sake of sounding good).
The Four Heavenly Kings of Tokugawa
Many samurai nicknames for themselves or others have only a few effects:
Deterrence of the enemy: A good nickname can deter the enemy, such as the Tiger of Kai, this nickname has achieved hegemony, coupled with Takeda Shingen's record, so many other daimyo talk about the tiger discoloration, have avoided its sharp edge, and the same is true of Onishi Manzijima Yoshihiro, through the brutal or fierce nickname, often make the enemy afraid, to achieve the effect of surrendering without fighting.
Shingen Kainotora Takeda
Boost morale: Good nicknames can also form a good army atmosphere, such as the Takeda family's army is very tigery, fierce, direct and brutal, coupled with Sun Tzu's sixteen-character mantra and cavalry units, so that the Takeda army is like the Gang army. At the same time, Yoshihiro Shimazu's "ghost" tactics lured the enemy into deep execution, which also highlighted the characteristics of Shimazu's well-trained and flexible combat.
The army of the Naka Shimazu family in the Sekigahara Battle (black)
But a lot of times, these nicknames are basically used for bragging.
The reason why the battles of the Japanese warlord daimyōs are called village battles is mainly because the battles of some downstream daimyōs are more like children's plays, not every daimyo has the strength of Oda Nobunaga, more often, it is muramura who are fighting for territory. Therefore, in order to show that they are very capable, they will give themselves a very powerful nickname, so they are often the most nicknamed, and the worse the combat effectiveness. For example, Nagano Nobumasa, who is also a "tiger" generation, is known as the "Shangzhou Tiger", but in fact he has fought a victorious battle in his lifetime, and he still fought a battle when he was more than half a hundred years old, and then he said that Owari Nobunaga - Oda Nobunaga's father, although he is very strong in the economy, but the war is really not as good as the next few famous generals, but still calls himself "Tiger".
Oda Nobuhide who fought the battle
In addition, the most senior military generals are basically not worthy of the name, and Sanada Yukimura, who is known as the first soldier of the Sengoku, is not a general in a hundred battles, and when the main general goes to the battlefield, it is in the Battle of Osaka. Its tragic color and the pen and ink rendering of later novels made him the first general, but in fact, his combat ability is not strong.
It was blown out by the nickname of Sanada Yukimura, the first soldier of the Sengoku Period
Although many warring states military generals have very loud names, in fact, their combat effectiveness is just that. Some samurai nicknamed themselves just to show their fame, just like our 108 generals.
The Japanese people's obsession with the nickname "Middle Two" is actually part of their culture, and the cultural output of the Japanese Middle Two nickname is actually a kind of pursuit of the strong, their nickname is direct and crisp, although it seems to be the middle two, but it is actually worth learning and learning from us.
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