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Bleach chapters 116-132 Twitch VOD (Patreon)

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shadow22

the egregious mistranslation of his sword, Ashisougi-Jizou[疋殺地蔵] as “Leg-cutting Jizou.” For one it’s not the word “Leg” at all, it’s “Foot.” And I’m not even sure it’s referencing an anatomical foot. The kanji 疋 is used as a counter word for a number of things, including measurements of cloth, so I think it’s actually just a sloppy translation into the English “foot,” as in the unit of measurement. But the reference I think Kubo is actually making here is that this kanji is used to count what most dictionaries seem to refer to as “small animals,” (as in a "foot" where a foot is the length of a small "roll of cloth" where the roll is the size of a small animal pelt; ergo you count livestock kept for pelts with the same counter word used for the fabric they yield. But also you start calling larger rolls by the same word because they're made and stored in the same basic form even as the measurements vary) which is a little vague, but it does implicitly tells us a few things. The things it counts are, small in size living things but not human The obvious literal usage of this would be for things like rabbits being counted by a hunter or farmer: things you collect in large numbers and that are smaller than livestock. But I think it’s a more obtuse reference here... See, the deity Jizou is a patron of children, pregnant women, dead children, and aborted fetuses(as he protects travelers on the road his domain is abstractly over those whoa re "inbetween" places, between birth and life, life and death, here and there, etc...) so I think the reference to a word measuring numbers of “Small (not human)Animals” is being used to reference children, and maybe even specifically fetuses or unborn children. And the specific choice to refer to them in that way is meant to convey callousness and heartlessness; treating babies like animals, expendable, exploitable, things to be cultivated and then harvested and ultimately less than human. Also, [殺] is just flat up “Kill,” “Murder,” “Butcher,” “Slay” as well as a bunch of other context specific terminal phrases. And yeah, to “cut down” or “to slice” is in there, but they’re hardly the most prominent interpretations of the word. So really, “Leg-cutting” is just a confusing choice for that translation, no matter how you slice it. And that makes what I think is the more correct interpretation of name, Ashisougi-Jizou[疋殺地蔵], “Patron God of Baby-Killing” This also re-contextualizes the release command, Kakimushire[掻き毟れ] which can translate as “Scratch” or “Tear” but also as “Scrape” or “Rip off/out.” So, again… BIG abortion themes being tossed around here, which just got totally ignored in most English translations, intentionally or not