Koupen-chan and Yatagarasu-san’s Wakayama Journey
This is a series of illustrations/mini-comics drawn by rurutea showing the three-legged crow god, Yatagarasu, taking Koupen-chan and Yokoshima Enaga-san on a trip throughout Wakayama Prefecture.
Edit Note (May 13th, 2024): I restructured this page and added the images directly because I noticed some of the tweet embeds didn’t load reliably, but sometimes loaded if I refreshed the page.
Translations
Translations are located below their corresponding image.
Original Tweets
Translation Tweets
(omits translations that were blog-only)
Note: Bottom of the sign says “Yoshino-Kumano National Park.” Source
C: On the way home
Top: Shirokuma-san, the type to teach you. (Long time no see)
P: That crow-san is probably Yatagarasu-san
K: Yatagarasu-san?
P: “Yata” means, simply put, “big”
P: That crow-san was a bit bigger, weren’t they?
K: That’s true…!
C: On the way home (continued)
It will continue for just a little longer :orange:
K: Will we meet again?
P: They’re said to be a god, so…
P: But, it would be nice if you could meet them again
K: ! Yeah!!
C: Souvenir Reveal Party!
K: Here are the souvenirs!
Y: Ku ku ku…
A: Oh! Seriously?!
E: Oh wow! How delightful!
A: Local sake, fish paste, and Kishuu simmered scallops… Tonight we’ll feast on this! Wahaha
E: The pickled plums also look delicious!
K: Ehehe… embarrassed
K: I want to go with everyone next time!
A: Yeah! We also need to thank that god named Yatagarasu!
K: Yeah!
C: Where Yatagarasu goes home
"With this, "Koupen-chan (and Yokoshima Enaga-san) and Yatagarasu-san's journey through Wakayama" is over.
Thank you for coming along!"
K: Ah! Yata-chan!
K: Welcome back~!
C: Bonus
K: Ah~ I like that~
Another Bonus
Translator Notes
Whew… It’s finally over.
By the way, here’s the page for the exact same scallop souvenir shown above. I happened across it when trying to figure out what hotate Kishuu ni (ほたて紀州煮) was exactly… You can see the box has the same exact bands on it.
http://www.wakaya.co.jp/menu/hotate/index.html
I believe Kishuu (紀州) just references the area (it refers to a peninsula). According to Wikipedia, it was a province, and is now Wakayama Prefecture, which makes sense. Hotate (ほたて) means Japanese scallops, and ni (煮) means a simmered dish.
Note from Senjoujiki
TN: “C: Honestly we're almost-ly to Senjoujiki” is lit in JPN "shoujiki mou jiki senjoujiki" which is some kinda pun/rhyme, so I tried to recreate it in English.
正直もうじき千畳敷 or
正直もう直千畳敷
See the repeated kanji?
References
Nachi Falls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nachi_Falls
Hashigui-iwa: https://en.visitwakayama.jp/venues/venue_29/
Sign at Senjoujiki: https://www.alamy.com/an-image-of-landscape-of-senjojiki-located-in-shirahama-image343660362.html
Kishu Umeboshi-kan: https://en.visitwakayama.jp/venues/venue_227/
More on Umeboshi-kan: https://kansaibishoku.net/en/experience/498
Tweet from reader (@love_nuigurumi) who kindly read the sign from Senjoujiki
