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{{quotation|The Patriarch laughed and said, "Though your features are not the most attractive, you do resemble a monkey (''hu-sun'') that feeds on pine seeds. This gives me the idea of deriving your surname from your appearance. I intended to call you by the name 'Hu.' Now, when the accompanying animal radical is dropped from this word, what's left is a compound made up of the two characters, ''ku'' and ''yüeh''. ''Ku'' means aged and ''yüeh'' means female, but an aged female cannot reproduce. Therefore, it is better to give you the surname of 'Sun'. When the accompanying radical is dropped from this word, we have the compound of ''tzŭ'' and ''hsi''. ''Tzŭ'' means a boy and ''hsi'' means a baby, so that the name exactly accords with the Doctrine of the Baby. So your surname will be 'Sun'." When the Monkey King heard this, he was filled with delight. "Splendid! Splendid!" he cried, kowtowing. "At least I know my surname. May the Master be even more gracious! Since I have receive the surname, let me be given also a personal name, so that it may facilitate your calling and commanding me." The Patriarch said, "Within my tradition are twelve characters which have been used to name the pupils according to their divisions. You are one who belongs to the tenth generation." "Which twelve characters are they?" asked the Monkey King. The Patriarch said, "They are: wide (''kuang''), great (''ta''), wise (''chih''), intelligence (''hui''), true (''chên''), conforming (''ju''), nature (''hsing''), sea (''hai''), sharp (''ying''), wake-to (''wu''), complete (''yüan''), and awakening (''chüeh''). Your rank falls precisely on the word 'wake-to' (''wu''). You will hence be given the religious name 'Wake-to-Vacuity' (''wu-k'ung''). All right?" "Splendid! Splendid!" said the Monkey King, laughing: "henceforth I shall be called Sun Wu-k'ung."|''The Journey to the West'' Volume 1, Translated and Edited by Anthony C. Yu (page #)}} | {{quotation|The Patriarch laughed and said, "Though your features are not the most attractive, you do resemble a monkey (''hu-sun'') that feeds on pine seeds. This gives me the idea of deriving your surname from your appearance. I intended to call you by the name 'Hu.' Now, when the accompanying animal radical is dropped from this word, what's left is a compound made up of the two characters, ''ku'' and ''yüeh''. ''Ku'' means aged and ''yüeh'' means female, but an aged female cannot reproduce. Therefore, it is better to give you the surname of 'Sun'. When the accompanying radical is dropped from this word, we have the compound of ''tzŭ'' and ''hsi''. ''Tzŭ'' means a boy and ''hsi'' means a baby, so that the name exactly accords with the Doctrine of the Baby. So your surname will be 'Sun'." When the Monkey King heard this, he was filled with delight. "Splendid! Splendid!" he cried, kowtowing. "At least I know my surname. May the Master be even more gracious! Since I have receive the surname, let me be given also a personal name, so that it may facilitate your calling and commanding me." The Patriarch said, "Within my tradition are twelve characters which have been used to name the pupils according to their divisions. You are one who belongs to the tenth generation." "Which twelve characters are they?" asked the Monkey King. The Patriarch said, "They are: wide (''kuang''), great (''ta''), wise (''chih''), intelligence (''hui''), true (''chên''), conforming (''ju''), nature (''hsing''), sea (''hai''), sharp (''ying''), wake-to (''wu''), complete (''yüan''), and awakening (''chüeh''). Your rank falls precisely on the word 'wake-to' (''wu''). You will hence be given the religious name 'Wake-to-Vacuity' (''wu-k'ung''). All right?" "Splendid! Splendid!" said the Monkey King, laughing: "henceforth I shall be called Sun Wu-k'ung."|''The Journey to the West'' Volume 1, Translated and Edited by Anthony C. Yu (page #)}} | ||
Subsequent adventures and shenanigans result in the empty and degrading title/position of ''Bìmǎwēn'' | Subsequent adventures and shenanigans result in the empty and degrading title/position of keeper of the heavenly horses (弼馬溫 ''Bìmǎwēn'', a sly homophone intended to insult Wukong without him knowing it), followed by Wukong's own self-proclaimed title of "Great Sage, Equal to Heaven" (齊天大聖 ''Qítiān Dàshèng''). | ||
The same Chinese characters of 孫悟空 pronounced as 'Sūn Wùkōng'' in Chinese are pronounced as ''Son Gokū'' in Japanese. Because the name is taken directly from its source material, various other "Son Goku" (or simply "Goku") characters exist throughout other — even sometimes contemporary — manga and anime series that likewise take inspiration from or otherwise adapt ''Journey to the West''. Some of these include, but are not limited to: | The same Chinese characters of 孫悟空 pronounced as ''Sūn Wùkōng'' in Chinese are pronounced as ''Son Gokū'' in Japanese. Because the name is taken directly from its source material, various other "Son Goku" (or simply "Goku") characters exist throughout other — even sometimes contemporary — manga and anime series that likewise take inspiration from or otherwise adapt ''Journey to the West''. Some of these include, but are not limited to: | ||
* | * Jan Kūgo (anagram of "Gokū") from Yugo Serikawa and Leiji Matsumoto's ''SF Saiyūki Starzinger'' | ||
* Son | * Gokū Furinji, from Buichi Terasawa's ''Midnight Eye Goku'' | ||
* | * Son Gokū, from Kazuya Minekura's ''Saiyuki'' | ||
* Gokū, from Jōji Arimori and Romu Aoi's ''Asobotto Senki Gokū'' | |||
Similarly, many video game characters follow the same pattern based on the same source material, including (but not limited to): | |||
* SonSon, from the 1984 video game ''SonSon'' by Capcom | |||
* Sun Wukong, from the 1986 video game ''Ganso Saiyūki: Super Monkey Daibōken'' by Techno Quest | |||
* Goku, from the 1989 video game ''Famicom Mukashibanashi: Yūyūki'' by Nintendo | |||
* Son Goku, from the 1999 video game ''Saiyuki: Journey West'' by Koei | |||
* SonSon III (granddaughter of the original SonSon), from the 2000 video game ''Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes'' by Capcom | |||
* Monkey, from the 2010 video game ''Enslaved: Odyssey to the West'' by Ninja Theory | |||
* Wukong, a 2011 addition to the 2009 video game ''League of Legends'' by Riot Games | |||
* Qitian Dasheng, a 2019 addition to the 2010 video game ''Final Fantasy XIV'' by Square Enix | |||
* A yet-to-be-formally-named character in the forthcoming video game ''Black Myth: Wukong'' by Game Science | |||
==Dragon Ball Production== | ==Dragon Ball Production== | ||
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Son Goku was retained into the final version of the manga. While ''Dragon Ball'''s Son Goku is similar to the original Sun Wukong in some ways (most notably ''[[Kinto'un]]'', ''[[Nyoi-Bō]]'', and the [[Great Ape]] transformation likely being an allusion to Wukong's ability to transform), by and large the characters are completely unrelated. | Son Goku was retained into the final version of the manga. While ''Dragon Ball'''s Son Goku is similar to the original Sun Wukong in some ways (most notably ''[[Kinto'un]]'', ''[[Nyoi-Bō]]'', and the [[Great Ape]] transformation likely being an allusion to Wukong's ability to transform), by and large the characters are completely unrelated. | ||
== | ==Sun Wukong Artwork by Akira Toriyama== | ||
A side-by-side drawing of "the original Son Goku" (元祖孫悟空 ''Ganzo Son Gokū'')<ref name="toriwork153>{{Cite web|URL=https://web.archive.org/web/20180823115413/https://dragonball.news/news/20180823_wx.html|Website=Dragon Ball Official Site|Title="【鳥山明ほぼ全仕事】 平日更新24時間限定公開！ 2018/08/23"|Date=23 August 2018|AccessDate=23 October 2018}}</ref> and Son Goku from ''Dragon Ball'' was included on an interstitial page in the sixth collected volume of the ''Dragon Ball'' manga in 1986.<ref>{{Cite manga|Book=tan3|Page=p. TBD}}</ref> This drawing was featured as the ''Dragon Ball Official Site'''s 153rd entry in its ''The Nearly Complete Works of Akira Toriyama'' ongoing weekday column in August 2018.<ref name="toriwork153></ref> | A side-by-side drawing of "the original Son Goku" (元祖孫悟空 ''Ganzo Son Gokū'')<ref name="toriwork153>{{Cite web|URL=https://web.archive.org/web/20180823115413/https://dragonball.news/news/20180823_wx.html|Website=Dragon Ball Official Site|Title="【鳥山明ほぼ全仕事】 平日更新24時間限定公開！ 2018/08/23"|Date=23 August 2018|AccessDate=23 October 2018}}</ref> and Son Goku from ''Dragon Ball'' was included on an interstitial page in the sixth collected volume of the ''Dragon Ball'' manga in 1986.<ref>{{Cite manga|Book=tan3|Page=p. TBD}}</ref> This drawing was featured as the ''Dragon Ball Official Site'''s 153rd entry in its ''The Nearly Complete Works of Akira Toriyama'' ongoing weekday column in August 2018.<ref name="toriwork153></ref> | ||
Akira Toriyama provided a full-color drawing of [[Son Goku]], [[Son Gohan]], [[Kuririn]], and [[Piccolo]] — depicted as stand-ins for Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Tripitaka, and Sha Wujing, respectively, with appropriate clothing and accessories — for the "Catchphrase Grand Prix" feature in the 1989 No. 23 issue of [[Shueisha]]'s ''[[Weekly Shōnen Jump]]'' in Japan. The illustration received full-page reprints in ''[[Akira Toriyama - The World]]''<ref>"Dragon Ball". ''[[Akira Toriyama - The World]]''. Japan: Shueisha, 15 January 1990. ISBN 4-08-858130-X). (p. 34)</ref> and ''[[Dragon Ball Daizenshuu 1]]'' ("The Complete Illustrations"),<ref name="D1">{{Cite guidebook|Title="1989"|Book=5|Page=p. 73}}</ref> a quarter-page reprint in the ''[[Dragon Ball Chōgashū]]'' ("A Visual History"),<ref name="cho">{{Cite guidebook|Title="1989"|Book=32|Page=p. 55}}</ref> and a small reprint for the "Dragon Ball Secret File" feature in the [[30th Anniversary Super History Book]].<ref>{{Cite guidebook|Title="The PERIOD of DRAGON BALL: EPISODE 1989-1992"|Book=33|Page=p. 52}}</ref> Viz repurposed this same image as the cover artwork for [[Dragon Ball Z Part 1-4 (Viz Monthly Comics)|their fourth monthly issue]] of the "Dragon Ball Z"-branded comic release in June 1998. | |||
In 2014, Stephen Chow's own fandom of ''Dragon Ball'' led to Akira Toriyama drawing Sun Wukong for poster artwork for Chow's film ''Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons''. This drawing was featured as the 153rd entry in ''The Nearly Complete Works of Akira Toriyama'' in May 2018.<ref name="toriwork94>{{Cite web|URL=https://web.archive.org/web/20180531110553/https://dragonball.news/news/20180531_wx.html|Website=Dragon Ball Official Site|Title="【鳥山明ほぼ全仕事】 平日更新24時間限定公開！ 2018/05/31"|Date=31 May 2018|AccessDate=31 May 2018}}</ref> | In 2014, Stephen Chow's own fandom of ''Dragon Ball'' led to Akira Toriyama drawing Sun Wukong for poster artwork for Chow's film ''Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons''. This drawing was featured as the 153rd entry in ''The Nearly Complete Works of Akira Toriyama'' in May 2018.<ref name="toriwork94>{{Cite web|URL=https://web.archive.org/web/20180531110553/https://dragonball.news/news/20180531_wx.html|Website=Dragon Ball Official Site|Title="【鳥山明ほぼ全仕事】 平日更新24時間限定公開！ 2018/05/31"|Date=31 May 2018|AccessDate=31 May 2018}}</ref> | ||
==Additional Sun Wukong References in Dragon Ball Media== | |||
Likely in reference to the aforementioned 1989 ''[[Weekly Shōnen Jump]]'' illustration, [[Son Gohan]] is depicted in Sun Wukong's attire and holding ''[[Nyoi-Bō]]'' in the closing shot to "[[Come Out, Incredible ZENKAI Power!]]," the first closing theme to the ''Dragon Ball Z'' television series. | |||
Goku figure in Wukong outfit based on 1989 drawing; sculpted by Manabu Yamashita for the Bandai World Figure Colosseum line | |||
==Performance== | ==Performance== | ||
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| Aliases | Great Sage, Equal to Heaven |
The monkey king Sun Wukong is one of the main characters from the 16th century Chinese novel Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en, and serves as the underlying basis for the character that ultimately became Son Goku, the main protagonist of Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball franchise.
Though he shares a history of development tracking back to Journey to the West, Son Goku from Dragon Ball is a distinct character from Sun Wukong.
Biography
TBD
Name
Initially known as the "stone monkey" (石猴 Shí Hóu) and later as the "handsome monkey king" (美猴王 Měi Hóuwáng), "Sun Wukong" (孫悟空 Sūn Wùkōng) is one of the monkey king's various titles, given to him by his first master, the Taoist monk Subodhi:[1]
The Patriarch laughed and said, "Though your features are not the most attractive, you do resemble a monkey (hu-sun) that feeds on pine seeds. This gives me the idea of deriving your surname from your appearance. I intended to call you by the name 'Hu.' Now, when the accompanying animal radical is dropped from this word, what's left is a compound made up of the two characters, ku and yüeh. Ku means aged and yüeh means female, but an aged female cannot reproduce. Therefore, it is better to give you the surname of 'Sun'. When the accompanying radical is dropped from this word, we have the compound of tzŭ and hsi. Tzŭ means a boy and hsi means a baby, so that the name exactly accords with the Doctrine of the Baby. So your surname will be 'Sun'." When the Monkey King heard this, he was filled with delight. "Splendid! Splendid!" he cried, kowtowing. "At least I know my surname. May the Master be even more gracious! Since I have receive the surname, let me be given also a personal name, so that it may facilitate your calling and commanding me." The Patriarch said, "Within my tradition are twelve characters which have been used to name the pupils according to their divisions. You are one who belongs to the tenth generation." "Which twelve characters are they?" asked the Monkey King. The Patriarch said, "They are: wide (kuang), great (ta), wise (chih), intelligence (hui), true (chên), conforming (ju), nature (hsing), sea (hai), sharp (ying), wake-to (wu), complete (yüan), and awakening (chüeh). Your rank falls precisely on the word 'wake-to' (wu). You will hence be given the religious name 'Wake-to-Vacuity' (wu-k'ung). All right?" "Splendid! Splendid!" said the Monkey King, laughing: "henceforth I shall be called Sun Wu-k'ung."
— The Journey to the West Volume 1, Translated and Edited by Anthony C. Yu (page #)
Subsequent adventures and shenanigans result in the empty and degrading title/position of keeper of the heavenly horses (弼馬溫 Bìmǎwēn, a sly homophone intended to insult Wukong without him knowing it), followed by Wukong's own self-proclaimed title of "Great Sage, Equal to Heaven" (齊天大聖 Qítiān Dàshèng).
The same Chinese characters of 孫悟空 pronounced as Sūn Wùkōng in Chinese are pronounced as Son Gokū in Japanese. Because the name is taken directly from its source material, various other "Son Goku" (or simply "Goku") characters exist throughout other — even sometimes contemporary — manga and anime series that likewise take inspiration from or otherwise adapt Journey to the West. Some of these include, but are not limited to:
- Jan Kūgo (anagram of "Gokū") from Yugo Serikawa and Leiji Matsumoto's SF Saiyūki Starzinger
- Gokū Furinji, from Buichi Terasawa's Midnight Eye Goku
- Son Gokū, from Kazuya Minekura's Saiyuki
- Gokū, from Jōji Arimori and Romu Aoi's Asobotto Senki Gokū
Similarly, many video game characters follow the same pattern based on the same source material, including (but not limited to):
- SonSon, from the 1984 video game SonSon by Capcom
- Sun Wukong, from the 1986 video game Ganso Saiyūki: Super Monkey Daibōken by Techno Quest
- Goku, from the 1989 video game Famicom Mukashibanashi: Yūyūki by Nintendo
- Son Goku, from the 1999 video game Saiyuki: Journey West by Koei
- SonSon III (granddaughter of the original SonSon), from the 2000 video game Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes by Capcom
- Monkey, from the 2010 video game Enslaved: Odyssey to the West by Ninja Theory
- Wukong, a 2011 addition to the 2009 video game League of Legends by Riot Games
- Qitian Dasheng, a 2019 addition to the 2010 video game Final Fantasy XIV by Square Enix
- A yet-to-be-formally-named character in the forthcoming video game Black Myth: Wukong by Game Science
Dragon Ball Production
Origin in Journey to the West
Like several elements within early Dragon Ball[2][3], Son Goku finds his inspiration in Journey to the West, a classical Chinese folk novel published in the 16th century by Wu Cheng'en.
Pre-Dragon Ball
Between the Dragon Boy and The Adventure of Tongpoo prototype publications in 1983 and Dragon Ball's first publication in November 1984, Akira Toriyama developed drafts of the Dragon Ball stories with his editor Kazuhiko Torishima. The early drafts elaborated on the original Dragon Boy concept, incorporating elements from Journey to the West.[2][5] Having decided on a young female companion (no doubt shaped by both Dragon Boy and specifically The Adventure of Tongpoo), a western-style girl took the role of Tripitaka. Toriyama's design of Son Goku was literally that of the Monkey King himself, complete with the head decoration and staff. Zhu Bajie came over mostly intact as well, complete with his trademark rake.[4] In these early stages, it was indeed still a somewhat-faithful adaptation of Journey to the West, and was in fact rejected for being so faithful.[6]
In Toriyama's third pass — which moved through both pilot and final manuscripts — story details began to take form, as well as the names for other supporting characters. At this point, only Son Goku retains his original name from Journey to the West.[4]
Dragon Ball
Son Goku was retained into the final version of the manga. While Dragon Ball's Son Goku is similar to the original Sun Wukong in some ways (most notably Kinto'un, Nyoi-Bō, and the Great Ape transformation likely being an allusion to Wukong's ability to transform), by and large the characters are completely unrelated.
Sun Wukong Artwork by Akira Toriyama
A side-by-side drawing of "the original Son Goku" (元祖孫悟空 Ganzo Son Gokū)[7] and Son Goku from Dragon Ball was included on an interstitial page in the sixth collected volume of the Dragon Ball manga in 1986.[8] This drawing was featured as the Dragon Ball Official Site's 153rd entry in its The Nearly Complete Works of Akira Toriyama ongoing weekday column in August 2018.[7]
Akira Toriyama provided a full-color drawing of Son Goku, Son Gohan, Kuririn, and Piccolo — depicted as stand-ins for Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Tripitaka, and Sha Wujing, respectively, with appropriate clothing and accessories — for the "Catchphrase Grand Prix" feature in the 1989 No. 23 issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump in Japan. The illustration received full-page reprints in Akira Toriyama - The World[9] and Dragon Ball Daizenshuu 1 ("The Complete Illustrations"),[10] a quarter-page reprint in the Dragon Ball Chōgashū ("A Visual History"),[11] and a small reprint for the "Dragon Ball Secret File" feature in the 30th Anniversary Super History Book.[12] Viz repurposed this same image as the cover artwork for their fourth monthly issue of the "Dragon Ball Z"-branded comic release in June 1998.
In 2014, Stephen Chow's own fandom of Dragon Ball led to Akira Toriyama drawing Sun Wukong for poster artwork for Chow's film Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons. This drawing was featured as the 153rd entry in The Nearly Complete Works of Akira Toriyama in May 2018.[13]
Additional Sun Wukong References in Dragon Ball Media
Likely in reference to the aforementioned 1989 Weekly Shōnen Jump illustration, Son Gohan is depicted in Sun Wukong's attire and holding Nyoi-Bō in the closing shot to "Come Out, Incredible ZENKAI Power!," the first closing theme to the Dragon Ball Z television series.
Goku figure in Wukong outfit based on 1989 drawing; sculpted by Manabu Yamashita for the Bandai World Figure Colosseum line
Performance
Notable Appearances
References
- ↑ Wu Cheng'en. Yu, Anthony C. The Journey to the West Volume 1. USA: The University of Chicago Press, 1977. ISBN 0-226-97150-3.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Toriyama, Akira. "The Making of Dragon Ball". Bird Land Press 15. November 1984.
Kanzenshuu Translations Archive: Bird Land Press 15 - "The Making of Dragon Ball" - ↑ "Akira Toriyama Super Interview". Dragon Ball Daizenshuu 2: Story Guide. Japan: Shueisha, 04 August 1995. ISBN 4-08-782752-6. (pp. 261-265)
Kanzenshuu Translations Archive: Dragon Ball Daizenshuu 2: Story Guide - "Akira Toriyama Super Interview" - ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "BEFORE DRAGON BALL". Dragon Ball Daizenshuu 2: Story Guide. Japan: Shueisha, 04 August 1995. ISBN 4-08-782752-6. (p. 90)
- ↑ "Kazuhiko Torishima On Shaping The Success Of 'Dragon Ball' And The Origins Of 'Dragon Quest'" (15 October 2016). Forbes. Retrieved: 02 October 2020.
- ↑ "TBD". Dragon Ball: Adventure Special. Japan: Shueisha, 18 November 1987. (p. TBD)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "【鳥山明ほぼ全仕事】 平日更新24時間限定公開！ 2018/08/23" (23 August 2018). Dragon Ball Official Site. Retrieved: 23 October 2018.
- ↑ Toriyama, Akira. Dragon Ball Volume 3: The Tenka'ichi Budōkai Begins!!. Japan: Shueisha, 10 June 1986. ISBN 4-08-851833-0. (p. TBD)
- ↑ "Dragon Ball". Akira Toriyama - The World. Japan: Shueisha, 15 January 1990. ISBN 4-08-858130-X). (p. 34)
- ↑ "1989". Dragon Ball Daizenshuu 1: Complete Illustrations. Japan: Shueisha, 25 June 1995. ISBN 4-08-782751-8. (p. 73)
- ↑ "1989". Dragon Ball Chōgashū. Japan: Shueisha, 09 May 2013. ISBN 978-4-08-782520-6. (p. 55)
- ↑ "The PERIOD of DRAGON BALL: EPISODE 1989-1992". 30th Anniversary: Dragon Ball Chōshishū –Super History Book–. Japan: Shueisha, 21 January 2016. ISBN 978-4-08-792505-0. (p. 52)
- ↑ "【鳥山明ほぼ全仕事】 平日更新24時間限定公開！ 2018/05/31" (31 May 2018). Dragon Ball Official Site. Retrieved: 31 May 2018.