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Wow, thank you for the fast answer!
There is 1 more I would like to get translated, if you don't mind:
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商品情報
shouhin jouhou
merchandise infomation
 
中当て
Girls are playing with a ball so I assume it is some kind of ball game.
 
Are they playing a game that is similar to dodgeball? 中当て is a variation of it, which is played between the outside team vs. the inside team in the unseparated field.
 
Japanese Calligraphy meaning and orientation

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I had this Japanese cloth framed and wanted to know its meaning and orientation. Can someone please help me with this?

Thanks
 

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It seems like 道[michi] "road" to me. The red one is 落款[rakkan], i.e., the artist's seal. I can't decipher the name.
 
Do you think it could mean something else? As I looked up road and michi online and the characters do not look the same. Also is the picture facing the correct direction?

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It seems like 道[michi] "road" to me. The red one is 落款[rakkan], i.e., the artist's seal. I can't decipher the name.
 
Do you think it could mean something else? As I looked up road and michi online and the characters do not look the same.
Uh, do you know the difference among the styles of writing?

Regular script - Wikipedia
Semi-cursive script - Wikipedia
Cursive script (East Asia) - Wikipedia

See the example of "michi".
Right: semi-cursive style
upper left: regular/block style
lower left: cursive style
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Also is the picture facing the correct direction?
Yes, that's correct.
 
I don't really need the kanji translated, but it's so small that I can't make out what the kanji characters are.
I tried looking them up in my dictionary, but I can't see the radicals properly, so I'm afraid that I'm not finding the right ones.

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Is the first half 物騒な事? I haven't been able to figure out what the fourth kanji might be....
物騒な事__こえたぞ ?
 
It would be a simplicized kanji of 聞, but 物騒な事聞こえたぞ doesn't make much sense...

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…は「門」の略字として主にメモなどの個人的な筆記に広く使われているが、これは「門」の草書体が元になっており古くから使われている。
逡・蟄・- Wikipedia
 
Ah, that looks like it could certainly be it.
Thank you very much for the help. :)
 
I'm searching for this author's name : 幸運社(大人のマナー常識513 (PHP文庫): 幸運社: 本) and 野火迅 (めっぽう使える江戸語会話: 野火 迅: 本)

This company name: 草思社

In: 日本語能力試験1級試験問題と正解 平成16~18 年度」 (2008)
日本国際教育支援協会・国際交流基金 著、編集/凡人社

In : 「日本語教育能力検定試験 第13回~第15回 傾向徹底分析問題集」(2003)
アルク日本語出版編集部/アルク

Thank you.

Edit: founded アルク : Alc
 
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Various ways of looking up readings. Wikipedia is often my first stop, and 草思社 has a Wikipedia article: 闕画€晉、セ - Wikipedia

For 野火迅, look closer at the cover of the book you link to (it's in romaji).

A preview of one of the books by 幸運社 has a biography bit which gives the reading as こううんしゃ
(]和書 > 検索結果: 紀伊國屋書店BookWeb、本、洋書、洋古書、海外マガジン、電子書籍、PCソフトダウンロード go here, hit the google preview on the second listing, scroll towards the end). It uses the phrase '制作集団' so I think this isn't a person but a group working together under the name '幸運社'.
 
Help translate writing on sword please

Above is a link to a Japanese sword I have, and I would like to know more about it but I can't read the writing on the handle. Could someone please translate it for me?

Thank you!
 
I'm afraid your link to the picture doesn't work correctly.
 
The second picture
備前國住長舩清光
Bizenkoku juu Osafune Kiyomitsu
Osafune Kiyomitsu living in Bizen Province
(Osafune is a famous swordsmith clan.)


The last one (Your picture is upside down.)
永禄三年八月
Eiroku sannen hachigatsu
August or September 1560
 
Any idea what the first kanji in this picture is?

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This is from a screencap of a video game, I always try to see what I can make out of these.

「んん?
やけに話しかけてくるよなあ。。。
オレは、あまり話したくないんだよ。」

My poor translation:
"Hmm?
(He/she/they) are desperate to go talk to them...
As for me, I don't want to say too much."
 
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