Translation Requests

[VJK]

Hi,

杉坂　虎次郎 my translation tools translate as SUGISAKA Torajiro
三戸　與十郎 MITO Yojuro

Hopefully our Japanese friends will be able to come up trumps.

Kind regards,

VJK

[ijnfleetadmiral]

Thanks! How about this one?

谷　雅四郎

[VJK]

Hi,

谷　雅四郎 TANI Masashiro

Kind regards,

VJK

[ijnfleetadmiral]

Thanks!

[ijnfleetadmiral]

Got some more:

佐伯　誾 - Eta Jima 8th Class. Partial translation reads as Saeki ???

金子　昱 - Eta Jima 15th Class. Partial translation reads as Kaneko ???

高橋　鎗吉 - Eta Jima 17th Class. Partial translation reads as Takahashi ???

芳賀　玄昱 - Eta Jima 17th Class. Partial translation reads as Haga ???

伊集院　兼誠 - Eta Jima 18th Class. Partial translation reads as Ijuin ???

堀田　弟四郎 - Eta Jima 18th Class. Partial translation reads as Wakita ???

日高　二男助 - Eta Jima 20th Class. Partial translation reads as Hidaka ???

関　才右衛門 - Eta Jima 26th Class. Partial translation reads as ??? Uemon.

福崎　節衛 - Eta Jima 26th Class. Partial translation reads as Fukuzaki ???

名古屋　為毅 - Eta Jima 26th Class. Partial translation reads as Nagoya ???

志賀　巳之治 - Eta Jima 26th Class. Partial translation reads as Shiga ???

小森　正鋭 - Eta Jima 26th Class. Partial translation reads as Komori ???

森田　但次 - Eta Jima 27th Class. Partial translation reads as Morita ???

猪野　利猛 - Eta Jima 27th Class. Partial translation reads as Iino ???

吉田　良鋭 - Eta Jima 27th Class. Partial translation reads as Yoshida ???

園田　般次郎 - Eta Jima 27th Class. Partial translation reads as Sonoda ???

森本　兎久身 - Eta Jima 28th Class. Partial translation reads as Morimoto ???

松山　嶝 - Eta Jima 28th Class. Partial translation reads as Matsuyama ???

飯田　包亮 - Eta Jima 28th Class. Partial translation reads as Iida ???

大塚　林八 - Eta Jima 28th Class. Partial translation reads as Otsuka ???

北村　栄虎 - Eta Jima 28th Class. Partial translation reads as Kitamura ???

田辺　又弥 - Eta Jima 28th Class. Partial translation reads as Tanabe ???

[jeeplover]

I just got these two flags. could I please get a date a sender and a recipient and the slogans thank you. why is the kanji on the one flag look so sloppy the flag is massive it is at least 2 inches wider and 3 inches longer. thank you very much for the help. if more pictures are need please ask.

[jeeplover]

better pictures

[jeeplover]

[jeeplover]

[Wellgunde]

why is the kanji on the one flag look so sloppy...

I'm not sure what you mean by "sloppy." Also, you don't specify which flag is the one that looks sloppy. There are a couple of reasons why flag writing may appear to be poorly done. First of all, writing with a brush on a flag is difficult because of the absorbency of the fabric. The ink sometimes has a tendency to bleed. Secondly, many of the inscriptions on both flags are written in a cursive style of script known as sosho. Sosho is very fast, very loose, idiosyncratic, and often difficult to read. Sosho bears little resemblance to the kaisho style script which is used in books and other media.

[Akira Takizawa]

It would mean the style of writting. On the first flag, the slogan of Buun Chokyo was written in Sosho(Cursive script) . It looks sloppy for him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursive_script_(East_Asia)

There is no date and no name of senders or receivers on these flags.

Taki

[jeeplover]

thank you very much . so it is just a different style of writing. I had not seen a flag in this style before. what do the flags say?

[jeeplover]

if I have offended anyone it was not my intention and I am very sorry.

[jeeplover]

I did a some looking and from what I found this style of writing is only done by a person with skills to do it,
again I did not mean to offend.
http://forestbearlm.hubpages.com/hub/ja ... alligraphy

[hisashi]

Sosho is quite difficult to read. Only with a lack - not only good, but very good - we hit on a correct idea.

In the right column we see something of 汁. With some of best luck I enjoyed these several years, I noticed that it is 計. Then this line must be - still I cannot explain why I thought so - 愛知時計電機(Aichi Tokei Denki).

In some years after Meiji Restoration, Aichi prefecture (including Nagoya city) was a center of clock (not watch) industry. But clock was rather a simple product, so rapidly competitors in Southeast Asia had beaten them down (Seiko started as a watch retailer and had nothing to do with Aichi). For their survival, many small firms became parts suppliers for Mitsubishi, and eventually Toyota. But ATD found their way in producing water mater, gas mater etc. Also later they produced fuse for the army.

The first two chars on the second column reads 瑞穂(Mizuho), a location in Nagoya, where ATD had one of its factories. Two small lines in the end of this column reads 一年一同 三年一同 ([from] 1st grade students, 3rd grade students). I assume ATD maintained a technician training night school in its Mizuho factory, and a trainer was named for service in the army or navy. So students prepared it.

For another flag I cannot say anything. Names are given simply one after another with no special hint.

https://www.aichitokei.co.jp/eng/index.html