komfo,amonan wrote:
On 10/16/06, *Yanis Batura* <ybatura@mail.ru <mailto:ybatura@mail.ru>> wrote:> Checking the Wikipedia article, it looks like it's a European period, so > {ronmijycedra} might work.Hmmm... I needed that word for talking about ninjas and samurais... :)According to Wikipedia's History of Japan article there is a period called the "Japanese Middle Ages". So perhaps {ponmijycedra}.
Rather than copying the metaphor used in other languages, I think the common feature of the "middle ages" of both cultures was feudalism (and indeed, the boundaries of the era tend to be associated with the beginning and end of a feudal nobility (Yanis may have an opinion on this, since in Russia the feudal nobility essentially persisted up until the 20th century).
So come up with a lujvo for feudalism or feudal nobility, and the "middle ages" is the feudal-era. And that works in Japan as well as Europe.
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