by Tonkyhonk » Sat Nov 27, 2010 1:17 am
OEDO Mura(御江戸村)
-already explained in another thread, but ill add here as well since some seem to be always curious about this name and it is not at all related to "Oedo(외도or 外島)" in Korea. (I'm sure it is pronounced very differently too, but it looks the same when typed in alphabets.)
OEDO is a village founded by a group of Japanese(native) and Japanese learning(non-native) players, with the help of Niltrias and his friends.
Yolan, our ex-rep, loves "Edo", which is an old name for Tokyo back in 1600s-1800s when the shoguns of Tokugawa family ruled Japan, with many sophisticated works of unique popular culture developed known to this day.
Just simply naming it "Edo" was rather boring, so I suggested to add "O", a kind of an honorific prefix, to make it sound a bit cute or funny. "Mura" simply means village in Japanese.
(I had given Yolan a list of candidates for our village name along with this, and he picked this one.)
A few of you might be familiar with this name from the old song "OEDO" (a parody song for "TOKIO", another old song) by a Jap band called "Kabuki Rocks". You can check it out on youtube if you're interested.