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Subject:Identifying and/or translating a seal
Posted By: David Wilson Fri, Nov 16, 2018 IP: 2001:8003:c52f:bb00: Would anyone be able to give me some information about the attached seal please? I am sightly familiar with Mandarin but seal script is still a mystery. The seal is on the base of a meiji bronze koro. |
Subject:Re: Identifying and/or translating a seal
Posted By: I.Nagy Sun, Nov 18, 2018 Seal reads, |
Subject:Re: Identifying and/or translating a seal
Posted By: David Wilson Tue, Nov 20, 2018 Thank you so much I.Nagy. That all makes perfect sense :-) Another person I contacted re the seal said it read "Hideyasu" - but I did not think that was correct. |
Subject:Re: Identifying and/or translating a seal
Posted By: David Wilson Tue, Nov 20, 2018 Stranger and stranger! I looked up 秀 保 (reading right to left) in hanzi and the pinyin is xiu4 bao3. When I looked up the same characters in kanji they read shu1 ho1. Another reply further down said it could be hideyasu as well but, for the life of me, I cannot see where that comes from? |
Subject:Re: Identifying and/or translating a seal
Posted By: mikeoz Sun, Nov 18, 2018 Here are a couple os simple seal script characters for you to start on. |
Subject:Re: Identifying and/or translating a seal
Posted By: David Wilson Tue, Nov 20, 2018 Where is the information on Shuho found? I did a google search on his name and location but didn't come up with anything. Is there a reference book or something similar with the historical information listed? |
Subject:Re: Identifying and/or translating a seal
Posted By: Bill H Mon, Nov 19, 2018 The standard characters appear to be 保秀, possibly read from left-to-right as given name Yasuhide, or Hideyasu in the opposite direction. Hideho is a feminine version of the latter. I'll defer to Japanese experts for further comments/corrections. |
Subject:Re: Identifying and/or translating a seal
Posted By: I.Nagy Tue, Nov 20, 2018 Dear David, |
Subject:Re: Identifying and/or translating a seal
Posted By: David Wilson Wed, Nov 21, 2018 Thanks again I.Nagy. Japanese is truly inscrutable - lol. I have a better understanding of Japanese seals now. |
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