Season 10, Episode 27 - Sayonara, Uso (Patreon)

This week on MSB, we return to covering episodes of Victory Gundam with #27 'A Flash that Runs through Space'.

The best podcasts come from episodes that are either really good or really bad. This week's is one of those... but which? Please listen to it to find out!

Show Notes

• English and Japanese Wikipedia pages for "Shrike" / 「モズ」 ('mozu', also written as 百舌鳥).

• A brief overview of symbolism in Japanese visual art, which includes mention of shrikes' association with autumn.

• Jisho.org definition of はやにえ (hayanie), the "first offering of the season" or "butcher-bird prey impaled on twigs, thorns, etc."

• Jisho.org definition of 百舌勘定 (もずかんじょう / mozu-kanjou): "splitting the bill so that the others end up paying the whole amount; wheedling the others into paying the whole bill​."

• Article about shrikes as Osaka's prefectural bird (in Japanese).

• Page on laniidae/shrikes for Sibagu.com, a site "devoted to bird names in different languages of Asia"

• Article about shrikes, with various bits of culture, folklore, and linguistic information, including why 'mozu' is written with 3 kanji rather than 2 (in Japanese).

• Additional books and articles:

  Adams, Robert J., and Keigo Seki. Folktales of Japan. Univ. of Chicago Press u.a, 1976. (Accessed at https://archive.org/details/folktalesofjapan00seki, Sept. 18, 2024)

  Kunio, Yanagita. Edited and Translated by Fanny Hagin Mayer, The Yanagita Kunio Guide to the Japanese Folk Tale, Indiana University Press, 23 June 2022, publish.iupress.indiana.edu/projects/the-yanagita-kunio-guide-to-the-japanese-folk-tale.

  Mayer, Fanny Hagin, and Yanagita Kunio. “‘Yanagita Kunio’: Japanese Folk Tales.” Folklore Studies, vol. 11, no. 1, 1952, pp. i–97. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/1177324. Accessed 18 Sept. 2024.

• Japanese Wikipedia pages for 桜井斎頼 (Sakurai Tokiyori) and 源頼朝 (Minamoto no Yoritomo).

• English Wikipedia pages on Emperor Nintoko, and the Man'yōshū poetry collection.

• Additional information (in English) about the Man'yōshū, with an index and links to a selection of poems translated into English, including one of the two poems that mentions shrikes: 1897.

• A Japanese website about the Man'yōshū, which includes indexes of animals, plants, people, places, etc. that appear in the poems, information about the vocabulary used in the poetry, and the text of the poems themselves. Some parts of some pages are translated into English. The site includes an index of mentions of shrikes, and the text of the two poems: 1897 and 2167.

• Japanese Wikipedia page for the song もずが枯木で (mozu kareki de / Shrike on a Bare Tree).

• A recording of もずが枯木で  performed by the Bonny Jacks, a Japanese men's chorus.

• For worldfolksong.com, an analysis of the meaning of もずが枯木で's lyrics, and a comparison of those lyrics to the poem 百舌よ泣くな (Don't Cry, Shrike) by Satou Hachiro (サトウ ハチロー).

• An account of trying to track down the original text of the poem 百舌よ泣くな, as well as to trace the origin and spread of the song もずが枯木で, and an analysis of the song's meaning.

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