Photo: Japanese Boy as Samurai

[John Lindsey]

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Cany anyone translate the kanji on this old photograph?

[W.Bodiford]

First, the verticle lines on the upper right:

(1) Hiu shuku-shuku (sono ni)

(2) Kotsu mon jori issei teki (a.k.a. tachimachi ni jori ni issei no fue wo kiku)

Translation:

(1) Wind-blown rain: shuku-shuku* (part two)

(2) Suddenly hearing one note of a flute from inside the fortress

*NOTE: "shuku-shuku" is an onomatopoeia for the sound of wind in pine trees.


Second, the horizontal lines on the bottom:

(1) Tosa-ha Kenbujutsu (Tosa style Sword Dance)

(2) Kenjikan monjin (a student of the Kenjikan school): Maesawa (?)-jo (age 9)

[George Kohler]

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