From: chriskern99@gmail.com   
      
   On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 21:57:37 GMT, Lyrical Nanoha   
    posted the following:   
      
   >I used "Moonshade Knight" in my edit of ep.49.  "Moonlight Knight" is a   
   >DIC-ism, like some other blatant mistakes in the ADV subs.   
      
   Any dictionary you look in, whether English-Japanese or   
   Japanese-Japanese, should tell you that "tsukikage" means "moonlight"   
   and not "moonshade" -- "moonshade" doesn't even make any sense because   
   the moon doesn't have any shade unless there's an eclipse.   
      
   "tsukikage" is a very old word; the examples in the Koujien listed for   
   it come from the Genji Monogatari and the Kokinshu, which are 900-1000   
   AD works.  Even then it meant moonlight.  You have the expression in   
   modern Japanese "tsukikage sayaka na yoru" which means a beautiful   
   moonlit night.   
      
   This usage of "kage" to mean "light shed by an object" can be seen in   
   other compounds too -- "hokage", for instance, means the light of a   
   fire, not the shadows made by the light.  And in fact, if you look up   
   "kage" in the Koujien, the first definition given is "hi, tsuki,   
   tomobi no hikari" (the light from the sun, moon, or a lamp).   
      
   -Chris   
      
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