This is called shiso, or also known as oba, and yes.

这叫紫苏，也叫作 oba，是的。

Hide Oba is a Japanese manufacturing expert who once worked for Toyota.

Hide Oba是一位曾在丰田工作的日本制造专家。

A statue like this could well have adorned the Oba's palace.

这样的雕塑可能就用于装饰国王的宫殿。

A newly-crowned Oba would make the head of the preceding Oba.

新加冕的奥巴将成为前任奥巴的头。

This is the head of an Oba.

这是欧巴的头。

It was written for the most recent coronation of the Benin Oba.

它是为贝宁奥巴最近的加冕礼而写的。

That's a ceremonial sword carried by the Oba.

那是奥巴所携带的礼仪剑。

The National Commission for Museum and Monuments of Nigeria are acting on behalf of the Oba of Benin.

尼日利亚国家博物馆和纪念碑委员会代表贝宁 Oba 行事。

There's a large cast head of an Oba, or a Benin king.

有一个巨大的奥巴（Oba）或贝宁国王的铸造头像。

Novelists including Oba Minako and Kono Taeko used disturbing imagery to rebel against a view of women as baby-making machines.

包括 Oba Minako 和 Kono Taeko 在内的小说家使用令人不安的意象来反抗将女性视为生育机器的观点。

And he also is fighting against the Oba of Benin.

他还正在与贝宁的奥巴作战。

That reality, says Frum, is a conflict between Edo State and the current Oba of Benin.

弗鲁姆说，这一现实是埃多国家与现任贝宁奥巴之间的冲突。

As we learned earlier, each new Oba would commission a sculpture of his predecessor to be mounted on an altar.

正如我们之前了解到的，每一位新任奥巴都会委托为他的前任雕塑一座雕像，并将其安装在祭坛上。

That's right, what the British didn't burn, they looted — thousands of objects from the ceremonial halls of the Oba.

没错，英国人没有烧毁，而是掠夺了奥巴仪式大厅中的​​数千件物品。

There are also brass plaques that once adorned the pillars of the Oba's palace.

还有曾经装饰过奥巴宫殿柱子的黄铜牌匾。

To be fair, the repatriation of the Benin objects is complicated by the fact that there are several potential claimants — including the Nigerian government and the current Benin Oba.

公平地说，贝宁文物的遣返工作很复杂，因为有几个潜在的索赔人——包括尼日利亚政府和现任贝宁奥巴。

In early 2022, Nigeria put in a formal request, on behalf of the Oba of Benin, to repatriate the stolen Benin objects that are in the collection of the Glasgow Museums.

2022 年初，尼日利亚代表贝宁奥巴提出正式请求，要求归还格拉斯哥博物馆藏品中被盗的贝宁文物。

So I think what will tend to happen with art that is returned to Nigeria is that some of it will end up as the private property of the Oba, especially some of the earlier, more attention-getting pieces.

因此，我认为返回尼日利亚的艺术品往往会出现这样的情况：其中一些最终将成为奥巴家族的私有财产，尤其是一些早期、更引人注目的作品。

And everyone I spoke to — and I spoke to a wide variety of people, from many different walks of life, in churches and political systems — agreed if there's a contest between the governor and the Oba, the Oba is going to win.

我采访过的每个人——我采访过来自各行各业、教会和政治体系的各种各样的人——都同意，如果州长和奥巴之间有一场竞争，奥巴将会获胜。