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ORIGINAL: John 3rd

I had a player ask me for a few additional IJN CV Names. My knowledge of Japanese is ZERO and would like to see if anyone could come up with anything? Japanese CVs were named after birds or mythical creatures. If you have an idea, please Post with the name ie Shokaku and its translation 'Flying Crane.'

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ORIGINAL: CT Grognard

Might I suggest the following for Japanese carriers named after sacred shrines and places:

"Fuji", "Tate", "Haku", "Taisen", "Kaimon", "Koya", "Izumo", "Kumano".

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ORIGINAL: castor troy

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ORIGINAL: John 3rd

I had a player ask me for a few additional IJN CV Names. My knowledge of Japanese is ZERO and would like to see if anyone could come up with anything? Japanese CVs were named after birds or mythical creatures. If you have an idea, please Post with the name ie Shokaku and its translation 'Flying Crane.'

lol, I love the moments when I'm bitten in the ass for being a non native English speaker because the first thing that came to my mind was "wth why did they name it Flying crane?" as I've thought about this, a "flying crane":


[image]local://upfiles/13774/2072324A1EC141E4A30EBE987BBD7B46.jpg[/image]

just to figure out the next moment they meant a bird of course.

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ORIGINAL: castor troy

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ORIGINAL: John 3rd

I had a player ask me for a few additional IJN CV Names. My knowledge of Japanese is ZERO and would like to see if anyone could come up with anything? Japanese CVs were named after birds or mythical creatures. If you have an idea, please Post with the name ie Shokaku and its translation 'Flying Crane.'

lol, I love the moments when I'm bitten in the ass for being a non native English speaker because the first thing that came to my mind was "wth why did they name it Flying crane?" as I've thought about this, a "flying crane":


[image]local://upfiles/13774/2072324A1EC141E4A30EBE987BBD7B46.jpg[/image]

just to figure out the next moment they meant a bird of course.

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ORIGINAL: CT Grognard

Firstly, the historical ones, they were named after mythical creatures or birds at first, but it appears that towards the end of the war a large number were being named for mountains (especially holy ones):

DRAGON:
Ryujo: "Prancing Dragon"
Soryu: "Blue Dragon"
Hiryu: "Flying Dragon"
Unryu: "Cloud Dragon"

CRANE:
Shokaku: "Flying Crane"
Zuikaku: "Fortunate Crane"

PHOENIX:
Hosho: "Flying Phoenix"
Zuiho: "Fortunate Phoenix"
Shoho: "Auspicious Phoenix"
Taiho: "Great Phoenix"
Ryuho: "Dragon Phoenix"

HAWK:
Taiyo: "Goshawk"
Chuyo: "Soaring Hawk"
Unyo: "Cleaving Hawk"
Hiyo: "Flying Hawk"

PLACES:
Akagi: Mount Akagi
Kaga: Kaga Province
Amagi: Mount Amagi
Katsuragi: Mount Katsuragi
Kasagi: Mount Kasagi
Aso: Mount Aso


Might I suggest the following for Japanese carriers named after sacred shrines and places:

"Fuji", "Tate", "Haku", "Taisen", "Kaimon", "Koya", "Izumo", "Kumano".

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If you have an idea, please Post

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ORIGINAL: Hiltibrant

If you want some more traditional names, here are the names of some mythical places/creatures that follow the common naming traditions of the Japanese at the time:

Seiryu (azure dragon)
Suzaku (vermillion bird; Red bird – another name for the phoenix)
Zuiryu (auspicious dragon - a modern Soryu-class submarine of the same name exists)
Kenryu (sword dragon - a modern Soryu-class submarine of the same name exists)
Hakuryu (white dragon - a modern Soryu-class submarine of the same name exists)
Shiryu (the 4 dragon kings)
Shinryu (Spirit Dragon - NB! this was also used to name rocket-propelled kamikaze planes)
Kuzuryu (nine-headed dragon)
Ryugu (the undersea palace of Ryugin, the dragon god of the sea.)

Remember that in some cases, the Japanese simply recycled the names of older ships – before WWI, it seemed there was no guideline as to what kind of ship was named how – this is reflected in that many later warships reused names carried by a variety of 19th century vessels – Akagi, Hiei, Hosho, Ryujo, Katsuragi, etc.:

Tenryu (Heavenly dragon – the original Tenryu was sunk in late 1942, so why not recycle the name and use it for a carrier - one of the Unryu's, for example?)
Choyo
Chinyen (means: “striking from a long distance” – quite a fitting name for a carrier, no?)
Saiyen (means: “help from a distance”)

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ORIGINAL: CRations

Perhaps named after some of the past Emperors?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Emperors_of_Japan


CR

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I recall that the Akagi and Kaga were laid down as BCs, and since the Japanese inherited the British notion that its unlucky to change a ship's name they stuck with it. [:D]