Nina's Nihongo Zone 12 - Etymology 'Sayonara' in English (Patreon)

Hello patrons, and welcome to episode 12 of Nina's Nihongo Zone (one year of Nihongo Zone episodes!). This month, I look at the history of the use of 'sayonara' in English-language media.

- Oxford English Dictionary page:
"sayonara, int., n., and adj." OED Online, Oxford University Press, March 2021, www.oed.com/view/Entry/171606. Accessed 26 April 2021.

- Wikipedia page for Sayonara, the 1957 American Technicolor film.

- Pages for Rutherford Alcock and Christopher P. Hodgson.

- About "Stars and Stripes," the daily American-military newspaper.

- Link to the Google Books Ngram Viewer. I wasn't able to get the chart of "sayonara" and its use over time to embed properly, but if you enter it as the only search term you'll see the chart for yourself.

- Japanese history timeline. 

- Wikipedia page for the 1979 American war/action/comedy film, 1941.

- ANN encyclopedia page for Gundam ZZ. 

- ANN news articles about ZZ first streaming in North America on the service Daisuki, and about the Sunrise/RightStuf announcement of ZZ's first N. American release.

- The intro song is "The city" by The Kyoto Connection, from the album Kyoto Soundscapes, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.

- The outro song is "Brain Power" by Mela, from the album Mela two, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.

If you have language questions or a topic you'd like to request for a future episode of Nina's Nihongo Zone, you can email me at gundampodcast@gmail.com, or leave a comment below!