help me not look like a fool with my sentence.

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dmanatee

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• 20 Feb 2014

• #1

Hello everyone.
Well to jump into the heart of this, I am a Commissioned Artist and I was recently asked to do a special portrait reflecting a Maiko. I have put hundreds of hours into this piece and now the owner wants a special name painted into it.
They want, as far as I understand "Maiko copper OrchidBloom" or 舞子銅 蘭咲. Is this in the correct order and is it even correct. I don't want to be made a fool by writing a nonsense sentence, or something that is redundant.
Thanks for the help.

 

Toritoribe

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• 20 Feb 2014

• #2

OrchidBloom is 蘭の花 or just 蘭. but is it OK just to list the words "Maiko + copper + OrchidBloom"?

 

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Morphling

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• 20 Feb 2014

• #3

Problem is your English title is not a sentence. Just 3 seemingly unrelated words so there is no grammar to speak of. Are you sure you have the meaning nailed down?

 

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dmanatee

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• 21 Feb 2014

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Hey thanks for the reply. To be honest, they only gave me the name of the person and what they thought was the correct tittle. So I "think" I am trying to write the "name" on the painting. I don't want to be painting nonsense, and I am glad someone is out there to help me.

Would there be a more appropriate way to write the title/name on the painting? This person in the painting has been long dead and the only thing they knew was her more-or-less name.

 

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• 21 Feb 2014

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What is her name, in the first place?