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02-14-2011, 04:33 AM

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Originally Posted by masaegu View Post
The second pic says the drawing was done on May 5, 1615. 元和 is a period in Japanese history (1615 - 1624). The way the date is stated is completely non-Chinese.
This was the one thing that kept me from just saying "It's absolutely not Japanese."

My mind was weighing "the date is written Japaneseish" and "I can't make heads or tails of any of this" and "probably not Japanese" won out. :/

At least I couldn't recognize it because it's a special kind of old Japanese.
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