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Chinese Translation Needed
Rebelbase ^
| 3/16/22
| Rebelbase
Posted on 03/16/2022 10:54:40 AM PDT by Rebelbase
Cleaning up our father's estate we found a wax paper umbrella he brought back from his time in China and Japan in the months following the surrender. There is some writing on it which I assume is Chinese but am not certain. He spent some shore time in Shanghai and in Sasebo Japan in Oct-Nov, 1945.
Can anyone here translate what this writing means?
Larger image at the article link.
TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: vanity; ww2
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To: Rebelbase
When my wife comes home from work I’ll have her look at it. She is Chinese.
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posted on
03/16/2022 11:08:53 AM PDT
by
GingisK
To: Rebelbase
To: Rebelbase
I did copy the picture you provided ,and have sent that picture to a friend who speak fluent Mandarin Chinese, and I think he can also read it too. I’ll let you know when I know. Matter of fact, he lives in Maryland also, Potomac Md., in Montgomery County.
To: Rebelbase
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posted on
03/16/2022 11:11:23 AM PDT
by
Ken H
(Trump won.)
To: Rebelbase
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posted on
03/16/2022 11:12:18 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Rebelbase
It’s an ancient Confucian analect: “Man who pushes piano down mineshaft get tone of A flat miner.”
To: Rebelbase
The mostly out-of-work Samurai in the movie Hari-Kiri (the original) was making umbrellas like that to get by.
To: struggle
The photo is of the outside of the umbrella which I would think is where the text is meant to be read. I think...
To: BereanBrain
To: Rebelbase
I’ll have my wife translate it
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posted on
03/16/2022 11:19:32 AM PDT
by
datura
(Eventually, the Lord and the Truth will win.)
To: datura
I’ll have my wife translate it. Now I am dying of curiosity to know what the phrase is.
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posted on
03/16/2022 11:23:51 AM PDT
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
To: Rebelbase
All your bases are belong to us.
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posted on
03/16/2022 11:24:49 AM PDT
by
The Westerner
(Protect the most vulnerable: get the gov out of medicine, education and forest!)
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
She can’t understand several of the words - even though she speaks Shanghainese and Mandarin. It is Chinese Traditional.
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posted on
03/16/2022 11:27:00 AM PDT
by
datura
(Eventually, the Lord and the Truth will win.)
To: Rebelbase
I cannot translate but it looks like Japanese.
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posted on
03/16/2022 11:28:58 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Imagine, if you will, a vaccine so safe you have to be threatened to take it. )
To: Rebelbase; Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON
Here's Donna Chang. The rines were crossed.
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posted on
03/16/2022 11:29:32 AM PDT
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Larry Lucido
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To: Robert DeLong
It might be a proverb or charm, especially if it’s on the outside...
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posted on
03/16/2022 11:33:34 AM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: shotgun
Tank yu for saving us from Japan. We still no pay Chinese bonds yu bot from us yu suckers.
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posted on
03/16/2022 11:34:20 AM PDT
by
Tell It Right
(1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: Rebelbase
It’s Greek to me, but considering it was being sold to tourists, the writing may be something mundane and benign.
Something like days of the week or months in the year.
They know Americans like to see what we consider ‘exotic’ script.
To: Rebelbase
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posted on
03/16/2022 11:39:38 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. Ayn Rand)
To: Rebelbase
Can you ping us when you find out? Thanks.
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posted on
03/16/2022 11:44:41 AM PDT
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GOPJ
(We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. Ayn Rand)
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