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| HMS Senior Member England Joined 5108 days ago 143 posts - 256 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 3 10 February 2012 at 8:43am | IP Logged |
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Could somebody please translate the writing on this flag?
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| Lucky Charms Diglot Senior Member Japan lapacifica.net Joined 6950 days ago 752 posts - 1711 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: German, Spanish | Message 2 of 3 10 February 2012 at 2:00pm | IP Logged |
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I went over this with a native speaker in his 20s, and he had a hard time making out
all these old kanji with Chinese-derived idioms that aren't in widespread use anymore. Across the top (written from right to left) says 武運長久, which my dictionaries translate as "Continued luck in the fortunes of war" or "May God prosper your arms". The large message on the right side says 祈、奮闘 which means "we pray for success in your struggle". All the smaller messages are hard to read. The one in the upper left says 武勇 "heroic" (with perhaps a name signed next to it), the one below that says 祝連戦連勝 "celebrating successive victories". The one below that is a cursive script that's hard to read. The one in the lower-left corner says 祝入営 "congratulations on your recruitment". The one on the bottom center is probably 忠君愛国 "loyalty to your ruler and love of your country". On the bottom right corner there are actually 3 messages close together; the rightmost one we can't read, the middle one says 英米をうて "beat England and America", and the leftmost one probably says 忠勇義烈 "loyalty, bravery, and heroism". Anyway, it seems to be a flag signed with lots of patriotic messsages and given as a gift to a new recruit who was about to go to war. Edited by Lucky Charms on 10 February 2012 at 2:29pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| HMS Senior Member England Joined 5108 days ago 143 posts - 256 votes Speaks: English* | Message 3 of 3 10 February 2012 at 8:05pm | IP Logged |
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Thankyou very much!
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