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07-28-2010, 10:11 PM

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Originally Posted by KyleGoetz View Post
That's Chinese. But the first character appears to be 花 to me.

花(something with 它)前(something with 子)
____他硯_

nah, the beginning is 花籠 means flower basket. I will work on that it's challanging, i ll possibly write it by hand because i dont have the Chinese font on this pc. It is also not 前 in my opinion, as right hand side of the 月 is not written that way in 草書 . Last 3 are 地硯箱. It would mean that this may be a case for 硯 すずり, a stone for making ink for calligraphy. 花籠 at the beg. may be a name (4 kanji total) and smaller characters, besides flower basket has nothing to do with 硯. It's a name of the maker, but why is it on the right side. In calligraphy all sigs. are at a left side, or the bottom. Perhaps with crafts is different, but this calligraphy isn't very good anyway, looks more like a note made in mixture of 行書 and 草書.
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