tbonesullivan Posted March 7, 2023 Report Posted March 7, 2023 Mucking through this by hunting down radicals and hand drawing things has gotten me all but the last 1 or 2 kanji. I can't tell whether it's 一 ICHI followed by something else, or just something I can't recognize at all. The characters I have gotten so far are ペラ州 船第㭍佰参拾, and I am close to certain on these. It's supposed to be a flag from a WWII era Boat Squadron around the Perak River Region (ペラ州 ) in Malaya, however the rest of the kanji are quite old and I'm stumped. I also can't read the last two or figure out what they are supposed to be. Any help would be most appreciated, as machine translation has so far given us a bunch of strange answers. Quote
SteveM Posted March 7, 2023 Report Posted March 7, 2023 ペラ州 船第柒佰参拾一号 It's presumably the number of a ship: #731 2 Quote
tbonesullivan Posted March 7, 2023 Author Report Posted March 7, 2023 19 minutes ago, SteveM said: ペラ州 船第柒佰参拾一号 It's presumably the number of a ship: #731 Ahh.. I'm blind. I'm not used to seeing the "old" style numerals at all. Any idea why the older style numerals would have been used instead of using 七 百 三 十 一 号? Quote
SteveM Posted March 7, 2023 Report Posted March 7, 2023 Probably the person who wrote on the flag was hoping for a certain classic or official feeling to the text. 2 Quote
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