Status Updates From Murasaki: A Kunoichi Tale (...

if ur gonna be pretentious n translate all the place names (making it impossible for readers familiar w japan to place ur story without constantly going back to the glossary) at least be consistent and do the same for peoples names because they ALSO have meaning and are frequently better known than place names (my korean friends know their names hanja + meaning, but not the hanja for any big korean city, for example)

literally translating the names of the provinces etc doesnt feel "authentic" it feels pretentious as hell. no one thinks of tokyo as "eastern city", no one thinks of shanghai as "on the sea", no one thinks of ha noi as "in the river". similarly, no one thinks of luleå as "at the lule river", no one thinks of austria as "empire to the east". yes, these places LITERALLY mean things, but the average guy DOESNT CAREEEE

starting out great with a bazillion pages worth of glossary that NO ONE will be able to remember by the point these words appear in the book
also, kimchee????