David McDonald Posted January 30, 2012 Report Posted January 30, 2012 Dear All I am doing some research on ancient kanji and came across these menuki. That were on the nihontoantiques site. Nice site by the way. They are on a sword that was sold see http://www.nihontoantiques.com/fss454.htm And were described as "The menuki are a fine quality gold with shakudo of ancient kanji design. " I have seen these type of designs before but was wondering if there is anyway to translate or a list of the kanji?? There must be a list of these archaic characters. Any thoughts of idea would be great. thanks david mcdonald Quote
Nobody Posted January 30, 2012 Report Posted January 30, 2012 They are 福 and 壽. "福壽" means a long and happy life. Actually the style of the characters is not so special. Quote
Eric H Posted January 30, 2012 Report Posted January 30, 2012 From my collection Kakejiku KOTOBUKI „Longevity“ one-hundred times Tosogu by Tomokata Eric Quote
cabowen Posted January 30, 2012 Report Posted January 30, 2012 There must be a list of these archaic characters. There are specialist dictionaries in Japanese that show variant forms for kanji including Tensho, Reisho, Kaisho, Gyosho and Sosho... Quote
David McDonald Posted February 1, 2012 Author Report Posted February 1, 2012 Dear all Very interesting. Thanks Learn something new ever day on this site. later david mcdonald Quote
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