Talk:千本桜 (Senbonzakura)/@comment-86.245.26.248-20181130200601/@comment-89.130.147.107-20181219113943

Hi again,

sorry for the delay. some stuff came up.

what you describe is indeed a complex matter for which I don't think to have a certain answer. for this particular case, since from my perspective Haikara kakumei is synonimous to "meiji period" we might as well go as far as change it for "modernization phenomenum" and it would retain the same meaning. Naturally, that wouldn't be a textual aproach at all, and we have spend quite some time so far and concluded that the closest literal translation that can somehow retain a variety of the posible original language subtext  and vageness would be ideal.

My proposal is the following: Since decades of use gave High collar its own meaning after being transliterated into japanese. why not keep it as such? Haikara becames its own japanese word, used by japanese to describe a  sociopolitical phenomenum in japanese histor, in my book that is considered worthy of a singular noun. you could leave the english lyrics as "haikara revolution" and it would be acurate both textually and subtextually not to mention literal.

this past days of discussing this matter with you have proven very educational and enjoyable for myself, I hope we do get the chance to engage in such constructive disussions in the future

yours trully, Milo