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Asano taiko -- kanji

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kengruven
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Asano taiko -- kanji

Postby kengruven » May 6th, 2009 6:23 pm

I have a pair of Asano Odaiko bachi with this kanji on them:

http://www.asano.jp/img/tree.jpg

Can somebody help me read this? The first two look like "taiko", then "no 里" (taiko's town?). The middle one in the circle looks kind of like "Asano" (the company name means "prayer"?). The right two, I have no clue -- too stylish for my untrained eye!

Thanks!

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Postby Psy » May 8th, 2009 12:07 am

Here it is in all its Shift-JIS glory:

太鼓の里 (新) 浅野
The reading should be: taiko no sato (shin) asano, though for god only knows what reason I've seen 里 read as 'mori' on a fonts/software site before. Asa here means 'shallow' and 'no' means 'plains'. The 'shin' in the middle means 'new'. Play around with those characters a bit and you should start to see it!
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