thx!

No problem! 蝦夷 in 蝦夷共和国 refers to Ezo (the island), now known as Hokkaido. So both of them come from the idea of the land north of Wajin country being "barbarian", but once the Emishi had been subjugated/vassalised it came to refer to Hokkaido, which was still the land of the Ainu people.

*is refered

oh...i thought 蝦夷 means wajin/yamato people because of the word 蝦夷共和国. i didn't know 蝦夷 is refer to northern japan. thx for your reply.

It's because we have no idea what the Emishi called themselves, and so the best we have is the name the Yamato gave them - "Emishi" - which does indeed mean barbarian. The other kanji in 蝦夷 means prawn and that would be worse

夷literally means barbs in chinese ,japanese and korean. it is better to not use such a subjective word in any civ logo :)

Arigato!

Very interesting seeing a mod that focuses on a lesser known age/people of Japanese history! I like the civ mechanically as well. To me it looks like it derives inspiration from the way Genghis Khan in vanilla can stomp with his Keshiks, but without the unit itself being so brazenly overpowered. The player actually has to do something to bolster them. Keep up the good work!

As a Chinese 夷 is not a good vocabulary。

@Fiona Thanks hehe, Bosmer-controlled Tohoku would be quite something! Incidentally I believe this fills the last completely insurmountable TSL hole on your massive Japan map.

@Safiye indeed, as @greensniperhat has pointed out, we don't know what the Emishi called themselves (although it might have sounded something like Ainu, given that the word Ainu just means 'person' in Ainu language), and there aren't any other potential symbols to use other than their kanji name. Furthermore, the other kanji in 蝦夷 Emishi, 蝦, apparently means prawn, so that's just stranger still.

Finally! A quality Bosmeri civ mod.

It's just an indication of how little we know about them.

Looks not that bad, but Chinese letter "夷" means "barbarian". No nation or peoples on earth would call themselves as "barbarian" I believe.