do you know anyone that can translate Japanese?

MatanuskaValley

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I have a tsuba from the Edo period supposedly. I was wondering if you know anyone who can translate this writing?

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i think it says small mans glory hole

haha! good stuff

What good would a chinese person do? I was told at the antique show this weekend in portland that is not a replica the gold and silver is too high quality.

They could not translate though so I am not saying they couldn't be wrong but that would be very sup[rising to find out they were wrong it was the peeps from antique roadshow... they said to produce this today would cost 4000-5000$ so being a replica is pretty much not likely
 
haha! good stuff

What good would a chinese person do? I was told at the antique show this weekend in portland that is not a replica the gold and silver is too high quality.

They could not translate though so I am not saying they couldn't be wrong but that would be very sup[rising to find out they were wrong it was the peeps from antique roadshow... they said to produce this today would cost 4000-5000$ so being a replica is pretty much not likely
Chances are they got a japenese person in there.They got koreans,japs,indians everybody working in these chinese stores.
 
go to las vegas and pay pawn stars a visit. lol. I'm not really familar w/anyone who can translate japanese but I think you shouldnt have too hard a time. I'd google it and see if someone online has a shop or something that can translate it. how old is that item and what exactly is it? im very curious..
 
go to las vegas and pay pawn stars a visit. lol. I'm not really familar w/anyone who can translate japanese but I think you shouldnt have too hard a time. I'd google it and see if someone online has a shop or something that can translate it. how old is that item and what exactly is it? im very curious..

It is a TSUBA a hand guard for a katana sword. It is from the EDO period, which can be anywhere from like 1600 to 1864 ish. You can wiki it.

It drew a crowd at the antique show.
 
thats awesome, make sure you let us know man. I'd get more than 1 opinion though. where did you come across it? i bet its got one hell of a story behind it.
 
thats awesome, make sure you let us know man. I'd get more than 1 opinion though. where did you come across it? i bet its got one hell of a story behind it.

I bought it from an art auction website. I got it for like 400$ I was going to put it on my Katana, but when I saw how perfect it was I couldn't do it. As you can see from my picture album I practice martial arts:)
 
they are not as common as you'd think.lol, I visit one if the biggest sites out there for manga that i like to read, it takes 5 days from the time its released in japan till they have the translated version up. It also depends on what alphabet your looking at , japan has more than one. im guessing since that things so old the writing style/alphabet differ somewhat and make it even harder to translate, I could be wrong though, its worth a shot. www.onemanga.com they are real dicks when it comes to the rules so make sure you put it in the right forum and thread.
 
they are not as common as you'd think.lol, I visit one if the biggest sites out there for manga that i like to read, it takes 5 days from the time its released in japan till they have the translated version up. It also depends on what alphabet your looking at , japan has more than one. im guessing since that things so old the writing style/alphabet differ somewhat and make it even harder to translate, I could be wrong though, its worth a shot. www.onemanga.com they are real dicks when it comes to the rules so make sure you put it in the right forum and thread.

This is what I know so far.

I cannot figure out the last letter but the first four are 大森英重. It sounds like a name 大森 (Omori) being the family name and 英重 (Hideshige) being the given name. In Japanese, the family name always comes first. (quoted from my yahoo answers)

I assume the last character is not a letter but perhaps an owl or something that represented the family crest or makers mark?
 
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