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Japanese Marking On 1909 Cover To France

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Posted 05/19/2022 10:59 am

Help on Japanese transit marking. Cover originates in Kurume, Fukuoka with Kobe transit and Menat receiver (on back). Via Siberia in English, but I do not recognize the Japanese transit marking.

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Posted 05/19/2022 12:56 pm

The top two characters are Japanese for Buddha I think, and the bottom two characters are Saigyo, the name of a famous medieval Japanese Buddhist poet. Don't know what (if anything) the four kanji might mean when all together, or their significance on this cover.

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Posted 05/19/2022 3:02 pm

The 4th kanji is "yuki", which can be translated as "via", so the first 3 are some destination. The simple meaning of the 3rd kanji is "west" and the simple meaning of the 2nd kanji is "orchid", and I don't recognize the first kanji. But many foreign destination names are based on ateji, so the meanings may have little to do with the destination...

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Posted 05/20/2022 08:03 am

It is indeed ateji. The first 3 characters can be read "fu-ran-su", or "France". Never seen this before but this does surprisingly appear in an online dictionary: http://www.romajidesu.com/dictionar...8%A5%BF.html

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Edited by hy-brasil - 05/20/2022 08:09 am

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Posted 05/20/2022 10:48 am

Thank you very much, hy-brasil! I didn't know about romajidesu.com. I have been using jisho.org

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Posted 05/20/2022 6:34 pm

dandow, thanks for the link, too. The more references the better, I think.

I actually ended up there by finding the characters in a Chinese character site by stroke count. Not the problem here, but many things I've looked for involved traditional characters in either language so that's been a problem.

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