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Japanese Translation Help Needed - From Bronze Mirror - tony - Sep 21, 2022 (11:28 PM)
- Japanese Translation Help Needed - From Bronze Mirror - I.Nagy - Sep 22, 2022 (05:16 AM)
  - Re: Japanese Translation Help Needed - From Bronze Mirror - tony - Sep 22, 2022 (10:19 AM)

Subject:Japanese Translation Help Needed - From Bronze Mirror
Posted By: tony Wed, Sep 21, 2022 IP: 2602:306:b80e:d630:e

There is a Japanese inscription on the back of a mirror i own with which i could use help translating.

Subject:Japanese Translation Help Needed - From Bronze Mirror
Posted By: I.Nagy Thu, Sep 22, 2022

天下一人見和泉掾重次
Tenka-ichi Hitomi Izumi no Jō Shigetsugu
(Best in the world, Vice Governor of Izumi Province*, Hitomi Shigetsugu)

＊A formal non existing decorative title.
In the late Edo and Meiji periods mirror makers liked to use decorative blank titles.

With regards,
I.Nagy

Subject:Re: Japanese Translation Help Needed - From Bronze Mirror
Posted By: tony Thu, Sep 22, 2022

I really appreciate your help. thank you.

the mirror has a very interesting design and appears to be silver plated - something i have not run into yet. heretofore it has been largely bronze mirrors.