It's not very high, compared to those local magnates with hundreds of thousands of koku, maybe a local noble?
However, the family na is Maeda...
Could it be the future "Maeda Toshie of Kaga, with a million koku"?
The Inu from "Monkey and Dog"?
Nozawa imdiately asked, "What is this Maeda lord's full na?"
"It's Lord Maeda Kurando Toshimasa." Yayoi really knew, probably because of the direct lord's reason.
Nozawa pondered again, Maeda Kurando Toshimasa?
Yes, at this ti Japanese people had a formal na format, "family na formal na given na", further back it was "clan surna family na formal na given na", unlike modern Japanese who usually use the simpler "surna given na".
Among them, the clan indicated the origin of the bloodline, or ca from place nas like Soga, Chiyu, Najie, and Katsuragi; or from settlers like Qin, Han, Song, Goguryeo, Sui, and Han; or from professions like Hattori, Chancellor, Toriyama; or granted by the Japan emperor, like Minamoto, Taira, Fujiwara, and Tachibana.
The surna was used to distinguish status, typically granted by the Court, from the earliest ancient surnas like Mahito, Ko, Minister of State, Governor, Sa, Village Chief, etc., gradually evolving to the unified "eight colors", with status from high to low as: Mahito (exclusive to Japanese royalty), Asomi, Sukune, Imiki, Doshin, Omi, Muraji, Inaji.
However, as the surnas of the Minamoto, Taira, Fujiwara, and Tachibana clans beca courtier, surnas gradually lost their role in distinguishing status in Japan, and were discarded. By the Muromachi Era, unless it was for ceremonial occasions such as ancestral worship, no one would use it in daily life.
The family na usually ca from the location of the residence.
In the Heian Era, when the Fujiwara clan reached the peak of its power as regents, from the Court to local officials, all ca from the Fujiwara clan. Looking around, nobles were all Fujiwaras, calling out Fujiwara on the main street of Heian-kyo would have at least twenty people respond.
Therefore, to distinguish among each other, they began to address each other by the location of their mansions, like Ichijo, aning the first street of Heian-kyo.
If the location of the mansion changed, the address would change accordingly. Additionally, due to the marriage system influenced by China during the Heian Era, from "visiting marriage (husband and wife and children do not live together, husband visits the wife's ho for conjugal duties)" to "taking marriage (husband builds a house and marries the wife, family lives together)", the address based on the mansion between father and son naturally beca the "family na", passed down from generation to generation.
For example, this Maeda Kurando Toshimasa, in ancient Japanese, Maeda and Arata an the sa, highly likely because his ancestors for so reason ca to Owari Province, pioneered a new field and built a castle, then joyfully nad the place "Maeda", thus his family na beca "Maeda", passed down from generation to generation.
Now living in Hosokawa Castle, still using Maeda as the family na, it's likely because "Maeda Castle" was abandoned for so reason and moved without changing the family na.
As for the formal na and given na, they are used for others to address and self-reference, respectively, similar to ancient China.
For example, Zhuge Liang, with surna Zhuge (the Ge clan moved to Zhuzhou, hence Zhuge as surna), given na Liang, style na Kongming. So if you travel back to the Three Kingdoms period, directly calling him "Zhuge Liang" would be very impolite, you should call him "Kongming" or "Lord Zhuge", only he can self-reference as "Liang".
The situation in Japan Middle Ages is the sa, "formal na" is similar to Huaxia's "style na", used for others to call, usually derived from childhood nas, official court na or religious na, determined by age and status, and can be changed at any ti, whereas the "given na" is what one uses to refer to oneself.
So, Maeda Kurando Toshimasa, Maeda as the family na, Kurando as the formal na, Toshimasa as the given na.
If you want to ntion him, either call him "Lord Maeda", or "Lord Kurando", similar to later generations' "Mr. Zhao" or "Mr. Director"; or if relatively close or familiar, if you are his elder or of much higher status, you can call him directly by childhood or pet na, like "Ranmaru" or "Inu Chiyoda", similar to later generations' "Little Eggy" or "Doggy", under no circumstances should you call "Maeda Toshimasa", that's almost contemptuous, the hostility is quite clear, next there is a high chance of drawing swords to fight.
As for surna, it only evolved from a family na to this level in the late modern tis of Japan, it hasn't been simplified to that extent at this ti.
Of course, another point is that at this ti the "alias" phenonon in Japan was very serious, just looking at the formal na, there could be eight Iga-no-kami, six Higo-no-kami, tens of thousands of Shinemon, Zuon, Uemon, Hyouemon, Gate Captain, after all, there were only so many court positions, splitting one among each Samurai was unrealistic, and many also had vanity, fearing to be looked down upon by others, they would pick a court position that matched their current strength and force it onto themselves, or forcibly gild the face of their ancestors and then "inherit" it as a formal na.
The sa goes for commoners, Japanese commoners didn't have the qualification or condition to have a family na, generally making nas up randomly, there were also many alias phenona.
For example, Juubei, this is obviously an alias, most likely after becoming a house child of the Lang Faction, he felt he had so status and was no longer an ordinary farr (tenant farr with certain personal freedom), randomly changed it himself, absolutely impossible in the formal military establishnt of the Japan Court.
Inu Jiulang's na is more honest, at a glance it's known as "the ninth child born to Jiro", quite in line with the naming custom tradition of rural Japan in this era.
These things Nozawa learned as a child from watching "Ikkyu-san", curious about the silly big Samurai inside called "Shinemon", such a strange na, also curious how a little monk dared to kick the Shogunate general into a pool, checked so materials to understand - Shinemon is just a formal na, for others to call, full na is Kinokuni Shinemon Kintone, and Ikkyu the little monk was Japan emperor's own child, because of the struggle between the Southern and Northern Dynasties, forced to beco a monk early on, so he would not be supported by the Southern Dynasty to compete for the throne, so he can safely kick the Ashikaga Shogun's butt without worrying about losing his head.
Thus shows, watching animation does have benefits, if it weren't for the curiosity back then and checking, probably wouldn't even understand what this little girl Yayoi was saying now.
Nozawa felt sowhat relieved, at least when dealing with other samurai later on, addressing each other with no problem, less likely to "insult" others carelessly and, for no reason, get stabbed.
Seeing Nozawa pondering quietly again after asking, Yayoi felt this lord was rather absent-minded, hesitated for a mont, carefully inquired, "Lord, may I know how you... and that lord should be addressed?"
She had wanted to ask for a long ti, and took the opportunity to do so.
Nozawa snapped back to reality, thinking that under the current situation, safety is the priority; exposing foreigner identity could likely lead to danger, after slight contemplation, he smiled and said, "Our nas? He's sick, you don't need to worry, as for ... hmm... I am Nohara Saburo Ieto.
His ho was in the Central Plains, and the place na carries the word "No", so his uncle gave him a na with "No" in it, now just happens to use it as a family na—Nozawa, and using this family na can also prevent accidentally being grouped into other families, he recalls that during the Warring States period in Japan, no family seed to use "Nozawa", that is, using "undeveloped flatland" as a family na, should avoid quite a bit of trouble.
Saburo is because when counting his uncle's elder brothers and sisters, he is the third, hence using that as the formal na;
As for Ieto... separated by thousands of miles, four or five hundred years, isn't the ho far?
So, when in Ro, do as the Romans do, safety first, during his stay in the Japan Middle Ages, he plans to use this na.
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