Topic: Another one for Keith to help with ID

[cookiebella]

Loving the colours and design on this yunomi ??  As usual unable to ID what appears to be chinese symbols?  thanks

[keith]

Any chance of a bigger picture of the mark,me old eyes aren't so good 

[cookiebella]

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b47/cookiepops/DSCF1138-001_zpsce7e5ad9.jpg

[keith]

Bit better,can see something,I may be sometime!

[cookiebella]

see you at Christmas   

[cookiebella]

it's a difficult one to photograph unfortunately, tried lots of times in different lights, will try again

[keith]

Bigger the better,had a look but not much yet,hope you don't mind but I copied the picture and altered the contrast but still difficult to read what's there,it's this way up,I think

[cookiebella]

no probs hon, and you think I know which way is the right way up 

[cookiebella]

[cookiebella]

[keith]

  ,pictures are better,gone through a few books and websites nothing yet I'm afraid,one more book to look at,will get back to you later,

[cookiebella]

blimey Keith, no rush on this hon

[Mosquito]

This is a very tricky one. First of all from the style of the piece I'd say Japanese rather than Chinese. One element of the mark is 峰. I don't know the Japanese pronunciation (though it's possibly 'ho') or precise meaning, but in Chinese this would mean 'peak'. However, I don't know if the mark consists of several characters or just one large one. The upper strokes don't entirely make sense to me, they appear somewhat stylised. If separate characters then maybe the mark reads '穴峰'? This would translate as something like 'cave mountain'. Maybe Keith can add more or comment on the Japanese pronunciation of these kanji...

[cookiebella]

just found this fab site and busy trawling through

http://www.ryu-mei.com/catalog/Utsuwa/p27.html

[keith]

Interesting site will have a look at that later,in regards to Stevens post I'm having trouble sorting out the characters,starting with the highlighted one in the pic' below this can be 'yama' meaning mountain,peak,heap ,pile,climax and a few others it is also common at the end of names and is pronounced 'zan' like Taizan or Meizan,famous potters.The other characters Steven mentioned are 'ana' meaning hole or cave but can also be 'ketsu' which can mean,hole,slit,gap,blank,bum! or even 'dark horse' to name a few,why did I ever start learning Japanese? not a common language in the West Midlands,not given up yet though

[cookiebella]

hehhehehehehe never thought of drawing it in like that, I shall try that and see if I can post a better pic.  Oh my.....trust me to give you a not so easy one sniggerrrrrrrrrrr lol

[keith]

Stumped! checked my books,even had a look in my kanji dictionary and online,sorry , ,you could email the Japanese embassy