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In Japanese, how would you say...

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AStar617

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"Arts and Crafts Deathmatch" (or something similar)

???

Closest I can find for arts & crafts is "gigei" but wondering if there's something better.

It's a joke title for a competition, but I want a term with stronger connotations than a simple competition. Hence "deathmatch". "Budokai" was my first guess (tapping on DBZ for that one).

 
What is this for? You making a poster for a festival or something?

te tsukurimono = handmade things

do I really need to call my wife and ask her how to translate arts and crafts?
 
I must admit, I was looking forward to the silly responses too or I wouldn't have posted on ATOT! 😛
Originally posted by: Sex Smurf
What is this for? You making a poster for a festival or something?

te tsukurimono = handmade things

do I really need to call my wife and ask her how to translate arts and crafts?
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Not really. For an upcoming camping trip, I'm looking for a tongue-in-cheek way of naming a "Arts & Crafts Showdown" with joke connotations of a martial arts battle to the death.

Does "te tsukurimono no budokai" make sense? Only took one semester of Japanese 😀

 
Originally posted by: AStar617
I must admit, I was looking forward to the silly responses too or I wouldn't have posted on ATOT! 😛
Originally posted by: Sex Smurf
What is this for? You making a poster for a festival or something?

te tsukurimono = handmade things

do I really need to call my wife and ask her how to translate arts and crafts?
Click to expand...
Not really. For an upcoming camping trip, I'm looking for a tongue-in-cheek way of naming a "Arts & Crafts Showdown" with joke connotations of a martial arts battle to the death.

Does "te tsukurimono no budokai" make sense? Only took one semester of Japanese 😀
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My japanese is also terrible and I usually end making up new words that (japanese) people end up using.

instead of "no budokai" maybe say "shobu"? That means challenge if I recall. I remember challenging one of my students to a "masu shobu". you figure out that one. haha.

te tsukurimono shobu still seems too long.

bunka shobu? culture challenge?
 
"When I was at camp, my favorite activity was always arts and crafts. Or, as we used to call it: arts and farts and crafts."
 
Originally posted by: Sex Smurf
Originally posted by: AStar617
I must admit, I was looking forward to the silly responses too or I wouldn't have posted on ATOT! 😛
Originally posted by: Sex Smurf
What is this for? You making a poster for a festival or something?

te tsukurimono = handmade things

do I really need to call my wife and ask her how to translate arts and crafts?
Click to expand...
Not really. For an upcoming camping trip, I'm looking for a tongue-in-cheek way of naming a "Arts & Crafts Showdown" with joke connotations of a martial arts battle to the death.

Does "te tsukurimono no budokai" make sense? Only took one semester of Japanese 😀
Click to expand...
My japanese is also terrible and I usually end making up new words that (japanese) people end up using.

instead of "no budokai" maybe say "shobu"? That means challenge if I recall. I remember challenging one of my students to a "masu shobu". you figure out that one. haha.

te tsukurimono shobu still seems too long.

bunka shobu? culture challenge?
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I like the concept of "handmade things" as it's specific to the activity... but I want a stronger word than "challenge". Something along the lines of a life or death struggle for arts and crafts dominance. 😀

An "Arts and Crafts Deathmatch". Yes. :evil:


 
Some more possibilities...

For "Arts & Crafts"

shugeihin - "handicrafts / hand-crafted goods"
dentougijutsu - "traditional crafts"
meishou - "master craftsman / skillful worker" (I like this one)

For "deathmatch"

s[/b]hitou - "struggle (to the death)"
chimidoro - "blood-stained / desparate struggle"
seizonkyousou - "struggle for existance"
souhasen - "struggle for supremacy / championship game"

So something like...
"meishou no chimidoro"?
"dentougijutsu no sh[/b]itou"?

A fluent Japanese speaker would help right about now... 🙂
 
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