Surrender Tag

[ZZr1100]

Hello again. Just out of curiosity, I've been trying to decipher the surrender tag that's attached to this showato kyu-gunto. Through perseverence, dumb luck and the internet, I think I have it narrowed down. Some of the characters are a fair stretch, and I have some trouble working out where one word ends and the next begins.

 

What I've come up with is

 

? 刀(orヶ) 華 (or 芋 or 苦) 八杉郭
?nokusa(or any variation of the diferent characters. Maybe a name?) yasugi kurawa (a reference to the city? I'm pretty confident I'm way off track here. Maybe a base he was stationed at, although I cant find 郭 being used in reference to ww2 military.)
陸軍主計中尉
Rokugun shukei tyuui(not sure how these transfer to romaji).

Army, Paymaster 1st Lt

I'm pretty confident on this line as it's almost identical to one in a preview of Richard Fullers "Japanese Sword and Surrender Tags"

 

I relied heavily on this site. http://jisho.org/Handy for transfering Kanji to romaji and vice versa and also finding words/names/sentences that goes with a particular kanji. Any limitations in translation are due to me and not this site:)

 

Matt B

 

 

Edited May 18, 2015 by YZed426

[k morita]

Hi,

 

[ZZr1100]

Thanks K. Morita. Looks like I need to work on my imagination and lose the tunnel vision. I saw the "dai" character a few times when I was looking for the relevance of the 8, but I was stuck on the "kusa", even though I thought the top radical(?) didn't look right. I never would have got the first character, either.

 

What I've got from your info is, possibly...

 

勢 Sei or zei. Military force

 

第八 Dai-hachi. 8th

 

移動 Ido. Mobile

 

I thought maybe 8th division, but I've only found that written as 第8師団 (Dai-hachi Shidan). It could be 8th Mobile Transport Regiment, but that would mean somebody cut the bottom off the tag(which might explain the lack of name) Or I could be reading it completely wrong:) Thanks for the translation.

 

Matt