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Inscribed by someone who had very bad handwriting or who actually didn't know kanji. Anyway, that's a male name 三？一郎 Mitsu?/San? Ichirō.
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My best wild guess is a very poorly made 本 in (mimic) cursive script, but I also think another possibility that the inscriber themselves might actually not know what they insribed...
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Yeah, but it's very weird that only the second kanji is written in cursive script.
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I think the most likely answer is that it is a fake signature (which is what Toritoribe-san was politely hinting at). You could post pictures of the blade itself and that would remove any doubt. You could also post to the Nihonto Message Board, which is a forum for Japanese sword enthusiasts. They can advise as well
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Yes, I think so.
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Yes, those kanji are 高 and 仰. It doesn't mean "aim for the highest", though.
Thanks. How would you translate it then? I see that one of the meanings of 仰ぐ is to seek.
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"to look upward/look up at a height"
(or "the place is high/to adore" in Chinese)
(or "the place is high/to adore" in Chinese)
Thanks. Any idea of the reading? ぎょうこう？ こうこう？
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gabrielcr78
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Hello, might I ask, what's this kanji?
is the first character 伯?
thanks!
is the first character 伯?
thanks!
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Yes, the first one is 伯, and the second is 爵, thus it's 伯爵..
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thank you Toritoribe!!
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The reading of the last character 睦 is "mutsu". It refers to a kind of club/group to participate in a festival.
Hello all!
I was wondering if someone could help me with this. I need to know the translation of the following Kanji (or at least I think/hope they're Kanji). I'm in need of a digital version of this so I can use them in a flyer design asked by a friend. He claims they are Japanese characters for a Martial Arts club (Tai Jutsu style), but I am not sure about that.
Hope you guys can help me with this! I blurred out the other non essential info, but didn't crop the image to improve the pic resolution.
Thanks in advance!
I was wondering if someone could help me with this. I need to know the translation of the following Kanji (or at least I think/hope they're Kanji). I'm in need of a digital version of this so I can use them in a flyer design asked by a friend. He claims they are Japanese characters for a Martial Arts club (Tai Jutsu style), but I am not sure about that.
Hope you guys can help me with this! I blurred out the other non essential info, but didn't crop the image to improve the pic resolution.
Thanks in advance!
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That's 柔; the first kanji of 柔道 Judo or 柔術 Jujutsu. The main meaning of the kanji is "soft". 柔道 is named from a proverb 柔よく剛を制す "Soft conquers hard".
Thanks a lot Toritoribe!
The strokes seem to be a bit 'off' in the emblem compared to the real kanji I now can find online (perhaps that was why I couldn't find it in the first place). Is this something that could be interpreted as artistic freedom or a different writing style, or is it just simply a mistake?
Thank you for the fast reply!
The strokes seem to be a bit 'off' in the emblem compared to the real kanji I now can find online (perhaps that was why I couldn't find it in the first place). Is this something that could be interpreted as artistic freedom or a different writing style, or is it just simply a mistake?
Thank you for the fast reply!
