Yokoyama Mitsuteru's manga "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is probably what introduced most people to the genre for the first time,
but it's based on Yoshikawa Eiji's novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms."
This draws not only from the original text "Records of the Three Kingdoms" but also
from the Edo-period "Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms" by Hu Nanwen,
which I believe is a significant influence, and as a result, Xiahou Dun's reading
follows Edo-period convention as "Kakou Jun."
In Koei's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" game series too, it used to be read as Kakou Jun.
A famous error in the Yoshikawa Eiji version is that
Zhang He, a general of Wei, dies in battle three times.
My interpretation is that there were three similar-looking generals:
Zhang He α, Zhang He β, and Zhang He γ,
and the one with the greatest military achievements, Zhang He β,
became Zhang He, with the episodes of the other two similar generals
merged together as well.
Liu Bei's episode of cannibalism, the incident with Liu An—
in the Yoshikawa version, it includes a note saying "I beg the reader's pardon as I, the author, must interject a word here,"
and provides an explanation,
but in the Yokoyama version, it was cut. Well, that makes sense.
Regarding He Jin's origins as a butcher in the Yokoyama version,
the tankōbon editions from around 1991 onwards have had corrections and revisions made throughout.
For example: "He Jin, who once had the profession of killing cattle and pigs, is now a general"
→"He Jin, whose sister is beautiful, is now a general."
There are several other instances like this as well.
What's remarkable about the Yokoyama version of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is that
its distinctive panels have become internet memes.
You could say there are many panels that would work as LINE stickers.
There are too many examples to list, but my favorites are:
"Wait, don't be hasty—this is Kongming's trap (Sima Yi)"
"Gan Ning strikes first (Gan Ning)"
"Gee! Guan Yu (Cao Cao fleeing after the defeat at Red Cliffs)"
"Ah! We've captured Xing Daorong"→"Execute him! (both Liu Bei)"
By the way, Xing Daorong is a fictional general who only appears in the Records of the Three Kingdoms.
"I must respectfully decline (Zhao Yun)" (→here)
and so on.
So the other day, a customer gave me
tea leaves from a collaboration between Lupicia, a black and green tea specialty shop,
and Yokoyama's Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
The one saying "Look, this is it" is Liu Bei,
in a scene at the beginning of the story where he uses money earned from temporary work
to buy tea leaves—such a luxury item back then that common people never got to taste it—
as a souvenir for his mother.
In the very next scene,
Liu Bei's mother hears that his ancestral sword was lost in the process
(to be clear, he didn't sell the sword to buy the tea)
and becomes furious, laments, and throws the tea away,
but you shouldn't let that bother you.
Also, this whole tea episode is an invention by Yoshikawa Eiji not found in the original text.
Other than this, the most memorable scenes involving food are
"Mandarin oranges, if you please (Cao Cao's attendant)" and
"Southern Barbarian King, with this the spirits of the Lu River will be appeased (Zhuge Liang)."
The first is a scene of tribute being presented to Cao Cao after he became King of Wei,
the second is on the return journey after subduing the southern barbarians, when the Lu River flooded
and the southern barbarian king Meng Huo offered to present forty-nine severed heads as a sacrifice,
at which point Zhuge Liang stopped him by instead sending mantou (steamed buns shaped like human heads)
down the river as a substitute.
...Though the latter, being shaped like human heads and immediately sent down the river,
doesn't seem suitable for a collaboration product.
Since there are so many, I'm sharing them with customers too,
but since obtaining these would constitute unnecessary and non-urgent going out,
I cannot write something like "please do visit our shop."
but it's based on Yoshikawa Eiji's novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms."
This draws not only from the original text "Records of the Three Kingdoms" but also
from the Edo-period "Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms" by Hu Nanwen,
which I believe is a significant influence, and as a result, Xiahou Dun's reading
follows Edo-period convention as "Kakou Jun."
In Koei's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" game series too, it used to be read as Kakou Jun.
A famous error in the Yoshikawa Eiji version is that
Zhang He, a general of Wei, dies in battle three times.
My interpretation is that there were three similar-looking generals:
Zhang He α, Zhang He β, and Zhang He γ,
and the one with the greatest military achievements, Zhang He β,
became Zhang He, with the episodes of the other two similar generals
merged together as well.
Liu Bei's episode of cannibalism, the incident with Liu An—
in the Yoshikawa version, it includes a note saying "I beg the reader's pardon as I, the author, must interject a word here,"
and provides an explanation,
but in the Yokoyama version, it was cut. Well, that makes sense.
Regarding He Jin's origins as a butcher in the Yokoyama version,
the tankōbon editions from around 1991 onwards have had corrections and revisions made throughout.
For example: "He Jin, who once had the profession of killing cattle and pigs, is now a general"
→"He Jin, whose sister is beautiful, is now a general."
There are several other instances like this as well.
What's remarkable about the Yokoyama version of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is that
its distinctive panels have become internet memes.
You could say there are many panels that would work as LINE stickers.
There are too many examples to list, but my favorites are:
"Wait, don't be hasty—this is Kongming's trap (Sima Yi)"
"Gan Ning strikes first (Gan Ning)"
"Gee! Guan Yu (Cao Cao fleeing after the defeat at Red Cliffs)"
"Ah! We've captured Xing Daorong"→"Execute him! (both Liu Bei)"
By the way, Xing Daorong is a fictional general who only appears in the Records of the Three Kingdoms.
"I must respectfully decline (Zhao Yun)" (→here)
and so on.
So the other day, a customer gave me
tea leaves from a collaboration between Lupicia, a black and green tea specialty shop,
and Yokoyama's Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
The one saying "Look, this is it" is Liu Bei,
in a scene at the beginning of the story where he uses money earned from temporary work
to buy tea leaves—such a luxury item back then that common people never got to taste it—
as a souvenir for his mother.
Liu Bei's mother hears that his ancestral sword was lost in the process
(to be clear, he didn't sell the sword to buy the tea)
and becomes furious, laments, and throws the tea away,
but you shouldn't let that bother you.
Also, this whole tea episode is an invention by Yoshikawa Eiji not found in the original text.
Other than this, the most memorable scenes involving food are
"Mandarin oranges, if you please (Cao Cao's attendant)" and
"Southern Barbarian King, with this the spirits of the Lu River will be appeased (Zhuge Liang)."
The first is a scene of tribute being presented to Cao Cao after he became King of Wei,
the second is on the return journey after subduing the southern barbarians, when the Lu River flooded
and the southern barbarian king Meng Huo offered to present forty-nine severed heads as a sacrifice,
at which point Zhuge Liang stopped him by instead sending mantou (steamed buns shaped like human heads)
down the river as a substitute.
...Though the latter, being shaped like human heads and immediately sent down the river,
doesn't seem suitable for a collaboration product.
Since there are so many, I'm sharing them with customers too,
but since obtaining these would constitute unnecessary and non-urgent going out,
I cannot write something like "please do visit our shop."