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Subject:help read strange edo japanese banzuke
Posted By: francis minvielle Thu, Oct 24, 2024 IP: 88.161.198.9
This print is banzuke like, but it is not about sumo.
Please translate the center column. It should help understand the topic, with these strange looking people at the bottom...



Subject:Re: help read strange edo japanese banzuke
Posted By: I.Nagy Sun, Oct 27, 2024
大平樂蠻語競　Daiheiraku bango kurabe
倭朝悪口　異國くわあどとんぐ
Kocchi no warukuchi Acchi no kuwaado tongu
東　大日本六拾余洲
Higashi Dai-Nihon Rokuju-yo-shu
西　大西洋五大洲　
Nishi Daisei-yo-go-daishu

A carefree comparison of Barbarian languages
Japanese slanders vs foreign quarrelled tongue
East Sixty-odd provinces of Greater Japan
West Six-odd countries of the West

Represented countries from left to right
France
England
America　‐　American man is depicted with a Nanking Chinese
Russia
Holland (Netherlands)

With regards,
I.Nagy

Subject:Re: help read strange edo japanese banzuke
Posted By: francis minvielle Sun, Oct 27, 2024
You are of great help, as every time.
Thanks so much,
Francis

Subject:Re: help read strange edo japanese banzuke
Posted By: I.Nagy Sun, Oct 27, 2024
Correction,
...
West Five-odd countries of the West - is correct

I.Nagy

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