name. When Noboru discovers a peephol... ... middle of paper ... ... be translated from Japanese to English. Due to cultural barriers, those who read the translated versions of the novels fail to see the importance of names like Noboru and Tomoe, and the impact that these names have on the rest of the work. Consequently, some of the literary value of the novels is lost in the translation. By using personal names as primary sources of characterization, Endo and Mishima offer a concluding
Women warriors in Japan in medieval Japan were usually described as having long, black hair and a fair complexion. They rode horses and handled weapons like bows and arrows and swords. Tomoe Gozen was one of these warriors. She was a figure in the Genpei war where the Minamoto won and moved the Kyoto capital to Kamakura. While she was an important warrior, she was thought of as lower because she was a woman. “Bushido, the ‘Way of the Warrior,’ is ‘a teaching primarily for the masculine sex.’” Samurai