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    Default Can someone please translate this Kanji?

    Please help me out and translate this Kanji, Thanks.
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    No fair.
    You need to show the entire knife or razor and tell us more
    about it and why a translation is justified.

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    I just forgot who made this knife and I want to sell it. Here are the other photosof the knife.
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    Well, I asked the wife and she said they're too stylized to read properly. The last one is "saku", meaning "Made by", the first two are the name of the maker--maybe "Shuu-somethingorother".

    Sorry...

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    It reads as:
    修司作
    しゅうじさく
    Shuujisaku

    Shuuji being the maker, saku meaning made by.

    Check here:
    [和式ナイフ/狩猟刀]本成寺修司作 (1)新鷹匠刀 3・3/4インチ(スタグ)

    If you scroll down you can see a picture of him.

    A knife:
    HiiCtj uCi aョiCt 120mmvX@(\27300,)

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    Default Possbile translation

    It says Yankee go home.
    Oh, no, that is what it says on all those GI Tattoos attained overseas.
    mental_floss Blog That Tattoo Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means

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    Quote Originally Posted by souschefdude View Post
    It says Yankee go home.
    Oh, no, that is what it says on all those GI Tattoos attained overseas.
    I was working for a guy who had two shops. They both had the same flash (design sheets) on the walls. So I'm in one shop and the boss is in the other. The phone rings and he asks me if I know the Edward Lee flash with the two skulls and the big piece of kanji. I tell him that I am looking right at it.

    "What does it mean ?" he asks. I don't have the faintest idea I reply. He says,"Intellectual and intelligent. thank you!" and he hangs the phone up. For a long time when anyone from the orient came into the shop I would show them the design and ask for a translation. Finally someone came in who could read it. It meant 'evil'. My boss had made the assumption that the customer would go for it if the translation had been 'intellectual and inteligent' and they did.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Frankenstein View Post
    It reads as:
    修司作
    しゅうじさく
    Shuujisaku

    Shuuji being the maker, saku meaning made by.

    Check here:
    [和式ナイフ/狩猟刀]本成寺修司作 (1)新鷹匠刀 3・3/4インチ(スタグ)

    If you scroll down you can see a picture of him.

    A knife:
    HiiCtj uCi aョiCt 120mmvX@(\27300,)
    Domo.
    Thank you for the links.

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    I lived in Japan for a couple of years and they have three writing styles, hiragana, katakana, and kanji. Needless to say, I gave up the writing part. I believe there 2000 characters for just the basics. It increases to 4000+ characters.

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    It means: HELLLP, I'm being held hostage in a knife making factory!
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