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Japanese kanji guide (by John Wocher)

I have given considerable thought and many cups of sake to the frustration in reading and translating the markings that appear on Japanese ceramics.
Here are my thoughts and findings: Ceramic artists, like physicians, have incredibly poor penmanship, and a great number of markings remain illegible. The number of ways that Kutani can be written, legibly and illegibly, will cause your calculator to go into scientific notation. Japanese writing can be left to right, right to left, horizontal,0