Translate Japanese Post Card?

Can anyone on the forum translate what I believe is Japanese writing at the bottom of this post card? I'm hoping that the writing describes what is depicted in the inset pictures. Comments on the violet marking are welcome, too. Thanks. Dave

I can tell you that you'll need better resolution in order to read the characters as they are quite intricate.

See if this works.

I just read about a phone app that will translate in another thread..

http://goscf.com/t/76585#686302
Maybe that will help more than I could.

I think these are army winter scenes from the Russo-Japanese war 1905.
Russo-Japanese war post card.

load the PC to googledocs / OCR will appear below image / copy to google translate ...

Just wanted to add that it looks like the postcard originally had a stamp with a commemorative cancel on it, but that the stamp was removed.

I looked at a reference that illustrates first day cancels on early Japanese commemoratives, and I didn't see a cancel that resembles the shape of the cancel you can still see on the card. So that would lead me to think it was a commemorative cancel -- there were lots of them in those days -- rather than a first day cancel. I don't have a reference for commemorative cancels, or else I'd check that, too.

A lot of the characters are too light or too blurry for me to attempt a full translation, but the four characters at the right end of the leftmost group (that is to say, the first four characters of the third group, reading right to left) definitely say Nichi-Ro Sen-eki "Russo-Japanese War".

Hi,

The card has two photos from two different wars.

The photo is the upper right is from China-Japan war and the one in the lower left is from the Russo-Japanese War.

The kanji is really difficult to read in terms of clarity - need better scan or resolution and the kanji is 'old' - not used anymore so the readings are difficult.

Here is the readings as best as I can tell. The one on the right hand side under the Chinese scene:

Hohei daigo ? tai nishin seneki ni okeru

The one under the Russian scene:

Nichiseneki kuro miso (???) sukai sen ni okeru tsuzugaoka

I'll have to spend some time translating it and pull out the Nelson kanji dictionary to check the above.......

HA - the censors got me on the translation

miso (???) sh I tsu............

I can read some of the words (it reads from right to left).
The top right photo was march of Japanese army 5th Infantry Regiment during First Sino-Japanese War.
The second was Battle of Mukden Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) Battle of Heigoutai ("#40657;#27807;#21488;#25112;#24441;") near some small hill (cannot translate the exact location).
Hope that help.

Found this topic and would add some notes;



"Tsu-tsuka" (or "Tsu-Zuka") hill is a name of a small hill near Heikoutai (Sandepu, Kokkodai) - as spotted by Just For Fun -, named after two Japanese soldiers (Lieutenant Colonel Tsugawa and Major Tsukamoto).

I couldn't spot the exact location for the Sino-Japanese war due to the low resolution of the postcard.

- Hironobu

Note that the cherry blossom/sakura marking, perhaps used both a cachet and cancel, was used as a cachet here. There was no cancelled stamp. If you look carefully, the pale blue and gold postcard inks repelled the violet ink of the cachet.