>>54641143>>54640825And just to prove I'm not a pseud, here:
First picture is Jisho, which takes its definition from the JMdict, which is free-to-contribute, open-source and the most used J-E dictionary.
Second picture is the Daijirin(大辞林) fourth edition from 2019, it's one of the most comprehensive and detailed J-J dictionaries.
I encircled two definitions which are important, I'll translate them here.
>(3) In shogi, chess, and sugoroku, something that moves on a board>(8) Something under one's influence, people and things that one can freely useThe reason Bulba says it's a "shogi piece" is for the same reason it says "Bisharp may draw inspiration from a chess piece". Because they can only thinks of things through an American view, and if the line is Chess in English, then in Japanese it HAS to be shogi. It can't be anything else.
They're brainlets and don't actually know Japanese.
