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Re: Japanese Metal Mark

Posted By: Bill H
Posted Date: Feb 16, 2012 (01:13 AM)

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The three characters above the square seal appear to be (in Big5 encoding): �Z�ë� (possibly transcribed Bu Zou Ya - 'The Martial Collection Studio/Shop' or as the 'Musashi Studio/Shop', with Musashi being a surname or place name).

The three characters in the seal appear to be from the right: �j���s (possibly transcribed Dai Kan Sei - 'Made by Great Gate' or as 'Oozeki Sei - 'Made by Oozeki', the latter being a surname).

I hope a native speaker of Japanese will come to the rescue and make some sense of the preceding machine translations.

BEst regards,

Bill H.

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