Let's Talk About Pottery & Collectables
Pottery => What's my Pottery? => Topic started by: cookiebella on February 05, 2012, 12:34:52 PM
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these are just over 2" and wondering if they are Chinese yunomi/saki cups
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b47/cookiepops/DSCF4872-1.jpg
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b47/cookiepops/DSCF4873.jpg
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I think you mean Japanese, not Chinese!
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I never know the difference between the two, am always getting mixed up :P
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Sorry Cookie,not a clue with this type of pottery ??? ;D ;D
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Can you highlight those marks and post a bigger image of them please? Either talc of soot should make them show up clearer. Ta! :)
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Hi there:
Taking a look at the small pic (but then used ctrl "+" , "+" ) a few times to enlarge it....it looks like a shape of a Fish (facing to the right). Looks like you can see the head, and the tail -- but the body is made up of ( 3 ) ??? letter shapes -- and they form the shape of the body.
That is what it looks like to me, but would be nice to have bigger pics posted too...as I may be wrong too.
thanks :beer:
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I think the left hand character (what Rose is seeing as the 'tail' of the fish) reads '水' (water). I can't make out the rest though...
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I going to have to learn how to type in Kanji,I'll ask the kids,it does look like the 'water' character when enlarged the other two I've no idea ??? ??? ;D
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Hi Keith,
To enter Kanji via the keyboard, you'll need an appropriate IME (Input method editor). I'm not so familiar with IMEs for Japanese, but I use a program called Pinyin Jiajia to enter Chinese. You type the romanised equivalent and can then choose from a number of characters which have that pronunciation. There is a Microsoft version as well, and I'm sure Microsoft must provide a Japanese IME for windows, so it's worth having a search.
With these types of IME you do need to know the standard romanised forms. There are other methods for entering characters based on radical and stroke count, but I'm not so familiar with these.
The best option I've found if you don't know the pronunciation is to use a service where you can hand draw the character and it will bring up a list of possible options. There are smartphone apps for entering characters this way. The online Chinese dictionary http://www.nciku.com/ has this function too, and it's often where I turn to first when looking up an unfamiliar character. Nciku do say they'll launch a Japanese dictionary in future, but it's not running yet. There may be online Japanese resources which offer this service though. Failing that, you can always find the character using Nciku, then copy & paste to look up the Japanese pronunciation.
Steven
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Thanks Steven,I'm still going to have to ask the kids as I'm a total dork on the computer and now have a Linux system which uses 'Ubuntu' whatever that is :czy: :czy: ;D
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Keith, my dearly beloved uses Ubuntu and he's now on Facebook, so feel free to pick his brains if you need help with anything. :)
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Thanks Anne,unless he's willing to pop round,point at,shout and shove me into understanding :hb: I'll ask the eldest,he does software security for banks and the Inland Revenue and the company he works for use Linux and he knows how thick I am :czy: :czy: ;D,thanks again ;D
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a closer image