Talk:Minamoto no Raikō/@comment-36159720-20180813095415/@comment-33784096-20180822062825

Well just some old Japanese/Chinese culture, it's very rude and not respect to call someone real name (especially high rank general, king and etc) after they passed away/even alive, so they just call another name that's near their name just like Raikou.

Like we won't direct say ZhuGeLiang by real name but call him "Marquis Zhongwu" to show respect to him after he passed away, and Raikou already passed away so we no need to call her Yorimitsu anymore, but to call her by respect 'Raikou'