Outen no Mon - Vol. 3 Ch. 15 - Calamity befalls Ariwara no Narihira 1

[MangaDex]

 

[Area__]

Musings of the day: I love how both Nobukiko and Michizane are very protective of Hakubai (especially when it comes to Narihira). Yeah, that's their collective big sister...

Nobukiko! She's finally here! I really wanted you guys to meet her once and for all. You can really make a critic to the Heian society that put so much pressure on little girls. Cause a 12-year-old should be focused on doing her homework and hanging out with her friends, but instead she feels that she needs to spend her time babysitting her future husband. Not that Michizane needs much babysitting in the first plac– frantically flips the pages of the previous chapters Oh. Well, maybe he does...

Anyway, this is the last chapter of volume 3, so this is what we're gonna do: the "Calamity befalls Ariwara no Narihira" series of chapters is just two of them (chapters 15 and 16); so instead of uploading the extra pages and leave you hanging, we're going to finish that and THEN I'll upload the extra pages of volume 3.

By the way, do you like the new volume cover art? As you may have already guessed, I LOVE it. Pretty obvious since Hakubai is there.

 

[coyote_vdb]

Thanks for the translation.

 

[Carmichael]

Thanks for the translation. lmao Hakubai is so horny in this chapter, but yeah, I love the new cover!

 

[Area__]

lmao Hakubai is so horny in this chapter

Boy do I have news for you... (Remember this sentence you wrote for next week's chapter)

Rip Hakubai. She would have loved modern fandom culture.

 

[Sleabedybarb]

I didn't expect Michizane to be a cunnyCHAD

 

[BalrogDeMorgoth]

Thanks for the chapter

 

[private_sub]

thanks for the details! Never really paid attention to Japanese names because I can't remember them most of the time anyway. So Hachijō isn't her name/title but a description? Would she be addressed that way as well or is it just used when talking to a third party?

 

[Area__]

thanks for the details! Never really paid attention to Japanese names because I can't remember them most of the time anyway. So Hachijō isn't her name/title but a description? Would she be addressed that way as well or is it just used when talking to a third party?

Hachijō no Hime is her title. For the vast majority of society, that's probably the only name they know for her. Either that or A's daughter, B's sister, C's niece, D's mother... You get the point.

I guess her parents and siblings did call her by her personal name, because why else would you name a child if not to use that name? But for people outside her family, dropping a lady's name so casually was just unacceptable.

That's the reason why we don't know the real names of many important Heian women, like Murasaki Shikibu or Ono no Komachi (who lived in this same time period btw). They introduced themselves and signed letters with these titles, so they are names that the ladies themselves actively used.