Mahavira and Nobi Nobita
The opening title of the 1988 film Nobita no Parareru Saiyūki 大雄平行西遊記 . This film is perhaps the only film where you can find Mahavira 大雄 and Nobita 大雄 together The main hall of a Mahayana buddhist temple is normally known as the Mahavira Hall or 大雄寶殿 (Dàxióng Bǎodiàn) in Chinese. The following calligraphic plaque, for instance, was photographed two years ago when I was at Kaiyuan Temple 開元寺 in Quanzhou 泉州. Mahavira Hall of Kaiyuan Temple, Quanzhou The four chinese ideograms symbolising both Mahavira and the hall are rendered by a certain magistrate of Quanzhou named Sun Chaorang 孫朝讓 in standard script 楷書, probably on the 15th day of the 8th month of the year of Renwu of Chongzhen 崇禎壬午仲秋 (Proleptic Gregorian: August 29, 1642). If you pay attention to the two vertical lines on the plaque, you will notice that the regnal name of Emperor Zhu Youjian, 崇禎, and the name of the calligrapher were both written in red ink. Apparently writing your name with a re...