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I need some help to translate this please :



Thank you
 
Hello! New here :

I'm making a dress that features the "Kuchisake-Onna" legend. It's a slip dress with a split in the thigh; I wanted the Kuchisake-Onna's dialogue "Am I pretty?" / "How about now?" going up the split. The vertical nature of the script compliments my design nicely so I hope that it is possible to translate this into vertical kanji!
Please feel free to correct any incorrect knowledge about the legend, I only know about it from books and Google!
 
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The words she said "Am I pretty?" is "Watashi/Atashi, kirei?" in Japanese. It can be written in kanji 私、綺麗？, but usually hiragana 私、きれい？ is used in the story.
 

This thread is actually for people who are trying to interpret or translate kanji, not those asking for translations into Japanese. Anyway...

Based on a brief Internet search I did, the "How about now?" part of the dialogue is usually expressed as これでも...？ It's not a direct translation, but conveys the same meaning.

You can write all of this text vertically, one character per line. When writing vertically, you can put the comma on its own line, or just omit it, and write the above three dots vertically, or just omit them.
 
You're ignoring the まっ part. 真っ直ぐに means straight ahead.
 
Can anyone read this word for me please?

It looks to me like 井解, but that doesn't seem to make much sense.
Many thanks.
 
Looking to see what 永伝説 (Ei densetsu) means, any help would be appreciated!
 
Lomaster said:
Eternal Legend. Sounds like a video game title or something. I don't see how any context could affect the meaning.
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It doesn't strike you as an odd construction?
 
It does. But i don't think it was a native speaker, who coined that 永伝説 title in the first place. Just like "All your base are belong to us" and similar cases.
 
Lomaster said:
It does. But i don't think it was a native speaker, who coined that 永伝説 title in the first place. Just like "All your base are belong to us" and similar cases.
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I have the same impression; I think it started from English and was translated by somebody looking up kanji.
 
Something tells me if you're asking for tattoo translation advice in a subreddit you really need to re-evaluate your life. Doesn't seem like the best place to get advice on something that's going to be permanent. Of course I'm of the mind that getting a tattoo in a language you don't understand is a bad idea in the first place.
 

Hi, this is my first time posting, so I hope I ask correctly and in the appropriate place. A really good friend of mine gave me these kanji paintings. Her uncle, from Okinawa, painted them long ago. She was only able to tell me that they would be appropriate to put in the entrance of a place, kind of a welcome, but she wasn't entirely sure. Could someone please help me with a translation?

Thanks so much,
Joe
 

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Joe McDonald said:
Could someone please help me with a translation?
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They are two of the most well known four kanji character phrases in Japan.
They are 温故知新 (on-ko-chi-shin) and 一期一會 (ichi-go-ichi-e).
Both are read starting in the top right and moving downward.
If you google using the above alphabetic versions of the phrases (perhaps with the dashes removed), you'll find lots of explanations of the meanings.
 
This is off topic but Does anyone know what this means??
 

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GabrielMZ54 said:
This is off topic but Does anyone know what this means??
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Chase/follow + dream

By some idjit who just looked up individual kanji and thought he was writing Japanese, no doubt.

Yours?
 
I moved your post.
The order of the kanji is more likely for Chinese grammar (verb -> objective). The opposite order 夢追 (yumeoi) can refer to an action "chasing a dream" in Japanese, as in 夢追人 (yumeoibito) "dream chaser/dreamer".
 
Thank You! Sorry I was "post hijacking" but I am new to the site and I really didn't know how to post correctly at the time.
 
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