Talk:Ei-Q

Name

Why was the name Ei-Q chosen? Of "Ei-Q" and 瑛九, which did the artist prefer, or use more primarily or more chiefly? What's the significance of that sound or those characters? LordAmeth (talk) 13:41, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

In Japanese, he seems to be consistently written up as 瑛九, sometimes glossed as "Ei-Q". I don't know where that came from, although he could hardly have been unaware of A級 and 永久. 瑛九 is how his name is written in 日本写真家事典 and the biographical dictionary 日本の写真家. He's most commonly written up as "Ei-Q" in English-language contexts (e.g. the large and excellent History of Japanese Photography, ed. Anne Tucker et al., Yale UP), and the idiosyncrasy of this romanization implies to me that it came from the man himself. (Perhaps that's how he signed himself -- but this is mere speculation.) If so, the choice of "Q" suggests an awareness of "A" -- but I've never seen "AQ" or "A-Q".

Compare the much younger 靉嘔 (アイオウ, Ay-O) -- not that I know anything whatever about him. -- Hoary (talk) 03:02, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Interesting. Thanks for taking the time to write. I first heard of this artist a few months ago, in the course of surveying a collection, and I noticed that the database listed him as both "Ei-Q" and 瑛九... I immediately thought, "Which one did he come up with first, and how or why did he develop the other one afterwards?" ... It's just a curiosity, really. I'm going to keep my eyes out for information on the subject, though, in case I find anything. LordAmeth (talk) 10:28, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

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