After an alternative explanation for the epithet of Ganji ("Some say that the name of Hikaru the Shining One was given to him in admiration by the Korean fortune-teller"), the translator notes: This touch is reminiscent of early chronicles such as the Nihongi, which delight in alternative explanations. In the subsequent chapters such archaisms entirely disappear.
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