Me, me, me. Me too.

So, I'm trying to write my paper for my art history class - comparing two works of art - and one of the works is a Japanese scroll painting. The story it depicts is pretty straightforward, so I'm going along, trying to summarize what's going on in the narrative, and it's going pretty good.... until I get to the name of the emperor that's getting kidnapped. So far, this guy has four different names.... that I've found. I'd bet good money there's more. Each source that mentions him calls him something different, and none of them say anything about him having multiple names, or there being confusion about his name. I suspect it's the former, however, as the two rival clans that the scroll depicts the story of also have multiple names - that each of my sources switch back and forth between capriciously, making it incredibly difficult to keep the frelling story straight. I'm beginning to think that in ancient Japan they had nothing better to do than sit around thinking up more names for each other. "Hey, Nijo, how do you fancy 'Goshirakawa'?" "Oh, I quite like that. And I'm rather fond of 'Sanjo' as well." "All right then, let's call you all three." I think they did that just to make some future art history student's life miserable.

And on a completely unrelated note, go see X2 and Matrix Reloaded. Very good movies. I wanna see them again. Even though I just saw X2 for the second time today. At least the X-Men only have two names each....

  posted by Tyria @ 17:24