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kozuka inscription help!!


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Hi All,

 

I have been trying to decode the back of a kozuka but I am over my head. I know it is signed ichinomiya echizen daijo minamoto no nagatsune but the rest of the inscription I can't get. I assume it must be a poem or something. Would appreciate any help. I added a photo with powder to help bring out characters. Thanks!

 

Ken

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Hi,

 

Nice both side of Kozuka!

Please wait for English translation of the haiku poem till tomorrow. :D

 

I learned one by this poetry.

Mantis's forelimb looks like a sickle, therefore, I thought that it was a " sickle."

However, people of the old time had called it an ax.

An ax and a mantis appears also in this poetry.

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