Talk:Mutsunokami Yoshiyuki/@comment-115.66.219.32-20161130175424

re: mutsu's minor injury quote 「ほたえなや」! if someone has already discussed this, i'm sorry!

i was doing a little search on what the term meant because i got a bit curious about the tosa dialect, but what came up seems slightly different from the translation of "i'm not messing around." based on these yahoo answers (1 ) (2 ), 「ほたえな」 (hotae na) is the negative imperative form of the tosa-ben word 「ほたえる」 (hotaeru), which means something along the lines of "to make a lot of noise/move vigorously" with a distinctively negative/scolding tone. 「ほたえなや」 seems to mean something more like "don't make so much noise!" -- or, to be less wordy, "be quiet!" or "settle down!" (though i'm not sure how や functions in tosa-ben, which might change the tone of the sentence)

everything i learnt about tosa-ben i learnt from the internet 15 minutes ago, though, so i might be completely wrong! if there's anyone with greater familiarity on the dialect, please do weigh in!

also (some mutsu fans might already know this, since a japanese tweet about it had a sizeable number of retweets, but i haven't seen it here but) according to this source, it seems that 「ほたえな」 was something -- or, at least, is believed to be something -- sakamoto ryouma said shortly before his assasination. like one of his tragic last words, if you will. purportedly, upon hearing the racket caused by the assassins' murder of his sumo bodyguard fujisaki (i think i'm romanising the name right...), he mistakenly believed that fujisaki was playing around. calling out 「ほたえな」 in response, he unfortunately ended up revealing his position to the encroaching assassins -- and inadvertently played a hand in his own death.

... which might or might not make mutsu's use of it as his minor injury quote all the more painful.