The lady lord named "Naotora".
“女城主直虎“ means “The lady lord named Naotora”. It is a story of a female lord before Edo period. It is a fresh story to Japanese people, because as far as I know, any lords—the region kings— are almost men. Although Naotora was born as an only successor of the powerful dynasty in the region, she is sent to the temple because of being a female and is raised as a nun.
She has been prevented from behaving as any power for a long time. However the dynasty faces a crisis of peril, she decides to govern the region and becomes the back of five years old boy's successor who is her nephew. There might be more female lords in the history, whom we haven’t known so far. I’d like to know more if they exist. I’m expecting how the story goes on.
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The lady lord named "Naotora".
“女城主直虎“ means “The lady lord named Naotora”. It is the story of a female lord who reigned in Japan prior to the Edo period. It is a novel tale to most Japanese people, because as far as I know, the lords (regional rulers) were almost always men. Although Naotora was born as the only true successor in a powerful dynasty, she was sent to the temple because she was a woman, and raised as a nun.She was prevented from exercising any power for a long time. However, when her dynasty faced unexpected peril and crisis, she decided to return to govern the region, also becoming the guardian of her nephew who was only five years old at the time. There may well have been more female lords in history, whom we are yet to know. I’d love to know if they existed and am excited to see how the story unfolds.
Its nice to say 'woman' instead of female here because it sounds harder and all makes it sound like they were being sexist, which I believe is the emphasis you want?
" yet to know" = we don't know yet, but perhaps we will...
"novel" = "fresh" but fresh connotes more with something brand new and shiny (e.g. fresh fruit), like a science fiction or action movie. "novel" can mean something brand new but also something old that has been newly uncovered or adapted (e.g. Baz Luhrmann's Romeo & Juliet was a novel take on a Shakespeare Classic).
"Tale" means the same as "story" so you can interchange these freely.
"exercising any power" is the perfect idiom to use here.
"there may well have been more female lords" is a nice one to use here. "May well" implies a slight optimism, hope or likelihood. "might be" and "may" are very neutral.
"story unfolds" is another great idiom when talking about dramas, exciting books, movies, etc.
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The lady lord named "Naotora".
“女城主直虎“ means “The lady lord named Naotora”. It is a story of a female lord before the Edo period. It is a fresh story to the Japanese people, because as far as I know, any lords—the region kings, are almost usually (you can also use "generally" or "almost always") men. Although Naotora was born as an only successor of the powerful dynasty in the region, she is sent to the temple because of being a she was a female and is raised as a nun.She has had been prevented from behaving as any power for a long time. However, when the dynasty was facesing a crisis of peril, she decidesd to govern the region and becomes became the back of five years old boy's successor (look below) who is her nephew. There might be more female lords in the history, whom we haven’t known so far. I’d like to know more about them if they did exist. I’m expecting how hoping the story goes on.
Did you mean that she became the teacher or caretaker or behind-the-scenes ruler... something along those lines?
Except for the tenses, quite well done really!
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The lady lord named "Naotora".
“女城主直虎“ means “The lady lord named Naotora”. It is a story of a female lord before the Edo period. It is a fresh story to Japanese people, because as far as I knew, any lords—the region kings— were almost all men. Although Naotora was born as the only successor of the powerful dynasty in the region, she is sent to the temple because of being a female and is raised as a nun.She has been prevented from having any power for a long time. However the dynasty faces a crisis of peril, she decides to govern the region and becomes the back of five years old boy's successor who is her nephew. There might be more female lords in the history, whom we haven’t known so far. I’d like to know more if they exist. I’m eager to see how the story goes on.
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Hello Boar san,
I made some corrections above, but was unable to understand this sentence:
"However the dynasty faces a crisis of peril, she decides to govern the region and becomes the back of five years old boy's successor who is her nephew."
I could not understand the part in green very well.
It sounds like a good TV series. I would love to try and watch it to practice listening to Japanese.
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