Can anyone read Japanese?

Freddy · 5th January 2009, 04:54 PM

I asked Chieko, the Japanese wife of a distant relative, and she came up with the following translation :

From top to bottom she reads 11 characters

1 = TEN

2 = KA

3 = ICHI

4 & 5 = MATSU

6 = MURA

7 = INA

8 = BA

9 = KAMI

10 = SHIGE

11 = YOSHI

The two last characters are the maker's first name : SHIGEYOSHI.

INABA is the name of the town or village, which is now called TOTTORI

She thinks this piece was made between 1626 an 1747. Some of the chararcters used on this mirror are old characters from the Edo-period.

5th January 2009, 04:54 PM	#25
Freddy Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Sint-Amandsberg (near Ghent, Belgium) Posts: 830	I asked Chieko, the Japanese wife of a distant relative, and she came up with the following translation : From top to bottom she reads 11 characters 1 = TEN 2 = KA 3 = ICHI 4 & 5 = MATSU 6 = MURA 7 = INA 8 = BA 9 = KAMI 10 = SHIGE 11 = YOSHI The two last characters are the maker's first name : SHIGEYOSHI. INABA is the name of the town or village, which is now called TOTTORI She thinks this piece was made between 1626 an 1747. Some of the chararcters used on this mirror are old characters from the Edo-period.