I have occasion to put together a small shrine to Ray Harryhausen in a context involving his work, Japanese monster movies, bad samurai films, and anime. I plan to make a simple triptych, with each panel involving a picture of Harryhausen and one of his creations. Given the context, I’d like to make a sign for it in Japanese.
So, I’d like to know how to write “Maker of Monsters” in Japanese. Bonus points for helping me figure out how to render the man’s name in katakana.
Any Japanese-speaking stop-motion monster fans in the house?
To get the Japanese form of a well-known person’s name, find the article about them in Wikipedia, then click on the Japanese characters for the Japanese language (日本語). In this case you get this article, where he is indeed named レイ・ハリーハウゼン
Yes, Wikipedia is a very useful tool for translators, especially with scientific or technical vocabulary. For example, I had to review some Swedish translations recently – a language that I know very little of – and found that the Swedish for “human resources” is “human resources”
– cite. (Though most words are a bit trickier than that).
