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In ep. 2 of season 3 of _Sailor Moon Crystal_ , Mamoru says that the amusement
park Chibi-Usa is going to is in Sankakusu, which is on reclaimed land. Later,
Artemis tells Luna that there are three reclaimed sites that comprise
Sankakusu: Tenohzu, Kaiohzu, and Meiohzu.

It struck me that the romanised forms of these three sites can be produced by
appending "-zu" to each of the surnames of the Outer Senshi (excluding
Saturn). (The civilian names of the Guardians concerned are Haruka _Tenoh_ ,
Michiru _Kaioh_ , and Setsuna _Meioh_.) After some experimenting with
romanization schemes (`tenohzu`, which is the official romanisation, does not
produce useful search results, but `tenouzu` produced a lead) and running some
searches, I found
[someone](https://web.archive.org/web/20160413011900/http://galaxycosmos.tumblr.com/post/49479674510/christianity-
in-sailor-moons-infinity-arc) who claims that these three sites have the kanji
天王洲, 海王洲, and 冥王洲 respectively. In each case, the first two characters
correspond to the surnames of the Senshi that I named earlier.

**Is there any in-universe reason for this correspondence between the names of
the sites and these Senshi's surnames?** (I might shrug away "Kaiohzu Park",
which appears in ep. 7 of _Sailor Moon S_ as a one-off coincidence, but it
would be unlikely if _all_ three names matched up by chance.)

  * It makes sense that Haruka and Michiru have helicopters that are named Tenohmaru and Kaiohmaru, _since they own these helicopters_ , but it seems doubtful that they would have plots of land named after them.

  * Perhaps their identities are completely made-up, and the surnames came _after_ the sites were named? (Perhaps they chose their new identities based on the names of the sites?) However, at least in _Sailor Moon S_ , the identity "Haruka Tenoh" seems to have existed even before Haruka became Sailor Uranus (per the characterisation in the flashback of ep. 17 of _Sailor Moon S_ ), even if it makes sense that Sailor Pluto would need a new identity (not being from the present).

As an aside, with slight spoilers for _Sailor Moon S_ :

> It makes sense that Saturn is excluded. Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto
> consistently work together in _Sailor Moon S_ , whereas Saturn only appears
> towards the end of that season. I imagine that this might also be the case
> in the manga and _SMC_. Moreover, it's clear that at least Saturn has a
> real-life identity that has not been falsified.


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Why do the names of the Sankakusu sites match the surnames of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto?


Only Tenouzu (天王洲) appears to be based on a real place, [Tennouzu
Isle](https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Tennozu+Isle/@35.621752,139.7483021,17z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x60188a6af388753b:0xfefc72c47663f88a?hl=en)
([天王洲アイル](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A9%E7%8E%8B%E6%B4%B2%E3%82%A2%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB)),
officially called Tennoz Isle in English). It was reclaimed from Tokyo Bay in
the 1920's and 30's and then redeveloped in the early 1990's. The other places
appear to be derived from the other outer senshi's names by extension.

Both Sailor Uranus's (セーラーウラヌス) name and her alternate identity's family name,
Tenou (天王), are taken from the planet Uranus, which in Japanese is called
Tenousei (天王星). Similarly the names of the other two outer senshi are also
taken from the names of planets, Neptune (kaiousei, 海王星) and Pluto (meiousei,
冥王星).

The name of reclaimed island and the Japanese name of the planet Uransus being
similar seems to be a coincidence. The planet name, tenousei, literally means
sky god star, referring to the Greek god Uranus's role as god of the sky.
Tennouzu Isle is named after the Shinto/Buddhist god of disease [Gozu
Tennou](http://eos.kokugakuin.ac.jp/modules/xwords/entry.php?entryID=192).

I doubt there's any in universe explanation of why these sites happen to have
similar names as the three new sailor senshi, just as there isn't any
explanation on how all of the senshi's family names coincidentally reflected
the sailor senshi identities that most of them would only acquire later. I
think its simply a case of taking a real world place name that happened to be
similar and extending it, only implying some sort of connection. For example,
while Sailor Moon's family name Tsukino (月野, literally "moon field"), suggests
a mystical connection to her role as Sailor Moon and her being a reincarnation
of a moon princess, it's really just a pun. Her full name in Japanese is
pronounced "tsukino usagi" which could also interpreted as "tsuki-no usagi".
That translates to "[Moon Rabbit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rabbit)",
the Eastern equivalent to what we in the West call the "[Man in the
Moon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_in_the_Moon)".

Here's a screenshot of the map shown of the "Sankakusu Delta" in episode 28 of
Sailor Moon Crystal and scan of the same scene from the Sailor Moon manga. If
you compare that to what Tennouzu Isle looks like on Google Maps, you'll see
that they placed the fictional Sankakusu and it's Tenohzu, Kaiohzu and Meiohzu
districts smack dab in the middle of the real Tennouzu Isle.

[![Sankakusu Map from Sailor Moon
Crystal](https://i.stack.imgur.com/u5v8N.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/u5v8N.jpg)[![Google
Maps screenshot showing Tennouzu
Isle](https://i.stack.imgur.com/o4AfV.jpg)](https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Tennozu+Isle/@35.621752,139.7483021,17z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x60188a6af388753b:0xfefc72c47663f88a?hl=en)
[![Sankakusu Map from the Sailor Moon
manga](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QmdQG.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QmdQG.jpg)


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