Curran Posted February 24, 2011 Report Posted February 24, 2011 Relaxed signature. Reads: Tomo ___ ? ___ Anyone able to translate it or help me see it more as it should be written? I'm just trying to practice reading signatures and the sloppy ones like this are good practice, but I couldn't make any conclusions about what I thought would be a simple character. Quote
k morita Posted February 25, 2011 Report Posted February 25, 2011 Hi Curran, The mei is "Cho-han" 長潘 and "Tomonobu + kao" 友信. "Cho-han means Choshu clan." Quote
Curran Posted February 25, 2011 Author Report Posted February 25, 2011 Morita-san, For the 1000th time, thank you for helping us here in this section. I would never have read it 'Nobu'. Because of my interest in Nobukuni nihonto, I thought I knew many variations of Nobu and of the Kuni kanji. Apparently, I do not read as well as I hoped. :? Try, try, and try again. Quote
k morita Posted February 25, 2011 Report Posted February 25, 2011 Hi, For your study of reading. Quote
Veli Posted February 25, 2011 Report Posted February 25, 2011 Morita-san, Is this a capture from a book that lists the different cursive styles of common kanji encountered in mei? If so, could you please tell us which book it is. I would like to buy one if possible... Best Regards, Veli Quote
k morita Posted February 25, 2011 Report Posted February 25, 2011 Hi,V The dictionary concerning the cursive style that i am using is the following. Tytle; [ Kuzushiji yōrei jiten ].くずし字用例辞典 (Dictionary of examples of cursive style characters.) Author; Kota Kodama. Publisher;Tokyodo-shuppan. Please see the link. this link's pic is book box. http://isbn2book.com/4-490-10333-6/kuzu ... _fukyuban/ Quote
george trotter Posted February 25, 2011 Report Posted February 25, 2011 For those who would find it easier to use an English text book on this subject, there is a very good one, but quite hard to find now (try rare books sites)... "Dictionary of Japanese (Sosho) Writing Forms" by Otome Daniels Pub. Lund Humphries - London 1944. It is 311 pages with about another 60-70 of appendixes etc. Hope this helps, George. Quote
Baka Gaijin Posted February 25, 2011 Report Posted February 25, 2011 Morning all Here's a link to different written forms of Hiragana: http://www.chikanobu.com/hiragreg.asp Cheers Malcolm Quote
Veli Posted February 25, 2011 Report Posted February 25, 2011 Thank you Morita-san, George, Malcolm. Seems that the Kuzushiji yōrei jiten is readily available in Japan. BR, Veli Quote
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