Practice reading. Tomo __?__

[Curran]

Relaxed signature.

Reads: Tomo ___ ? ___

 

Anyone able to translate it or help me see it more as it should be written?

I'm just trying to practice reading signatures and the sloppy ones like this are good practice, but I couldn't make any conclusions about what I thought would be a simple character.

[k morita]

Hi Curran,

 

The mei is "Cho-han" 長潘 and "Tomonobu + kao"　友信.

"Cho-han means Choshu clan."

[Curran]

Morita-san,

 

For the 1000th time, thank you for helping us here in this section.

 

I would never have read it 'Nobu'.

Because of my interest in Nobukuni nihonto, I thought I knew many variations of Nobu and of the Kuni kanji. Apparently, I do not read as well as I hoped.

:?

 

Try, try, and try again.

[k morita]

Hi,

For your study of reading.

[Veli]

Morita-san,

 

Is this a capture from a book that lists the different cursive styles of common kanji encountered in mei? If so, could you please tell us which book it is. I would like to buy one if possible...

 

Best Regards,

 

Veli

[k morita]

Hi,V

The dictionary concerning the cursive style that i am using is the following.

Tytle; [ Kuzushiji yōrei jiten ].くずし字用例辞典　(Dictionary of examples of cursive style characters.)

Author; Kota Kodama.

Publisher;Tokyodo-shuppan.

 

Please see the link. this link's pic is book box.

http://isbn2book.com/4-490-10333-6/kuzu ... _fukyuban/

[george trotter]

For those who would find it easier to use an English text book on this subject, there is a very good one, but quite hard to find now (try rare books sites)...

"Dictionary of Japanese (Sosho) Writing Forms" by Otome Daniels Pub. Lund Humphries - London 1944.

 

It is 311 pages with about another 60-70 of appendixes etc.

 

Hope this helps,

George.

[Baka Gaijin]

Morning all

 

Here's a link to different written forms of Hiragana:

 

http://www.chikanobu.com/hiragreg.asp

 

Cheers

 

Malcolm

[Veli]

Thank you Morita-san, George, Malcolm. Seems that the Kuzushiji yōrei jiten is readily available in Japan.

 

BR, Veli