#gamushin

Daily GKposting, day 12

I suck in Japanese but I find something very interesting in Nagakura Shinpachi’s Wikipedia page. 

我武者羅な性格だったので、「我武者羅」と「新八」を合わせ「がむしん」と呼ばれていた。

Because he was a samurai/warrior, he was called Gamushin, a contraction between the word gamushara [braggart / reckless] and his name Shinpachi.

This nickname is used in Golden Kamuy but I wanted to see if there are historical facts beyond this. I can find two sources, Wikipedia and this one. All in Japanese so yes not very sure about my translation but I can speculate this nickname has some true origins. 

So ? 

I imagine that the nickname Gamushin for Shinpachi can be use in Hakuouki. I don’t know who was the first one to give him this nickname but I suppose it was in Shieikan, when they’re all together without the pain above their destiny.