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Subject:Hand Carved Plate - Translation please
Posted By: Chris Mon, Oct 22, 2018 IP: 82.8.240.195

This is a turned wood, hand carved plate of indeterminate age. I would be grateful for translation please. I am assuming it to be Japanese or possibly Chinese. (Further images to follow. Thank you for looking and/or contributing.







Subject:Re: Hand Carved Plate - Translation please
Posted By: Chris Mon, Oct 22, 2018

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Subject:Hand Carved Plate - Translation please
Posted By: I.Nagy Tue, Oct 23, 2018

Inscription on the Japanese plate,
金刀比羅 - Kotohira
Name of a Shinto shrine (more exactly Kotohira-gu)
or Kompira-san in Kagawa prefecture.
千両 - Senryō - 1000 Tael (unit of coin in Edo
era)
A tourist souvenir item.

With regards,
i.Nagy

Subject:Re: Hand Carved Plate - Translation please
Posted By: Chris Wed, Oct 24, 2018

Thank you very much Mr Nagy!! - I had guessed it was probably a tourist piece possibly mid/late 20thC by the ageing of exposed wood where the laquer has come off. I have certainly seen much more sophisticated examples but it was the simplicity of the piece that appealed to me - I purchased it for very little along with a, potentially, much more valuable, painted, Swiss plate. Thank you again for your kind assistance.
Chris


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