Talk:The Nose (Akutagawa short story)

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Did you know... that "The Nose" is a 1916 Japanese short story by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke about a Buddhist priest who is obsessed with his ungainly nose?

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Disambiguate article title

This article really needs another title than The Nose (short story). The existing article The Nose is already about a short story, this one by Nikolai Gogol. Potentially, both articles need their names changed if they're to be properly disambiguated. Lusanaherandraton (talk) 10:49, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This sounds reasonable to me. How about "The Nose_(Akutagawa)"? This is how Gogol's "The Nose" is titled. Quillaja (talk) 05:02, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"Naigu" is not a person's name

In this article, the main character's name is described as "Zenchi Naigu". However, I think this is only partly correct because "naigu" is not a person's name, but rather a 'title'. In this case, the title naigu means (from WWWJDICT/EDICT)

内供【ないぐ】 (n) (See 内供奉) (abbr) inner offerer (any of the 10 high-ranking monks serving at the inner offering hall).

So, I think his actual name in the story is more like "High Priest Zenchi" or (more japanese style) "Zenchi-high priest" (Zenchi-naigu). This is similar to -san -kun -chan -sensei titles in Japanese. I got some confirmation of this from some Japanese colleagues. If anyone agrees (or cares at all) I'll adjust the article. Quillaja (talk) 05:00, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate or redundant sections

I am going to delete the "plot introduction" section because it's contains the same info as the actual plot summary, and is therefore completely redundant. Quillaja (talk) 05:05, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]