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[Batsu]

Thank you very much!

 

[Matthew Flynn]

Wow , I thought it might be a dead bug got cooked on it when it was made. I tried making it more visible with Photoshop but not much luck. You can make out the outside lines , but not kanji detail. Maybe someone will be able to tell from just that. My best effort to get more detail looks like two tiny mice kissing .

Thanks so much for this!

I had it looked at by someone at the V&A. Apparently it's late 1800's and the 2 symbols could be a sneaky artists tag for something they normally wouldn't be allowed to put their name on. So not kanji but definitely deliberate.

Thanks again for taking a look!

 

[Uncle Frank]

Beautiful Piece! Thank you for sharing the picture and info.

 

[PPF]

Can someone tell me what this says?

 

[Toritoribe]

Seems like a poorly-made 大過 "big mistake" written by someone who actually was not familiar with kanji.

 

[joadbres]

Seems like a poorly-made 大過 "big mistake"

It's self-referential.

 

[Lee Shane]

I'm reading the text of an image and I've come across some kanji that I can't seem to figure out. Here's a picture of it:

Can someone help me out here? Thanks!

 

[Majestic]

極希に
ごくまれに

 

[Chriz]

Please could tell me what these two characters are?
Please excuse the low quality.
Thanks,
Chris

 

[Toritoribe]

爪晆

Looks like a variant or miswriting of 爪哇 Java (island of Indonesia or programming language).

 

[Chriz]

Ah that fits in with other details! Many thanks

 

[jonathan33]

Hello! would someone please help me identify this kanji?

thank you! blessings

 

[Toritoribe]

It's 奉.
Isn't there 納 on the left side of the same torii like the picture below?

 

[jonathan33]

So is 奉 Chinese? that's a shinto shrine in Japan...

 

[Toritoribe]

Why do you think it's Chinese? And how about 納 on the left side I mentioned above?

 

[jonathan33]

納 you're right, and its a Japanese kanji, but I cannot find the meaning of 奉 in any Japanese source, but its found in Chinese dictionaries ...

 

[Toritoribe]

奉 - Wiktionary

en.wiktionary.org

奉 - Jisho.org

jisho.org

奉納 is a Japanese compound word, meaning "oblation". (Words or sentences are written from right to left in classical Japanese.)

 

[jonathan33]

奉 - Wiktionary

en.wiktionary.org

奉 - Jisho.org

jisho.org

奉納 is a Japanese compound word, meaning "oblation". (Words or sentences are written from right to left in classical Japanese.)

That was very helpful, thank you!