My parents have an old vase, but have no idea who made it or anything about it – all that it has is this written on the bottom:

Can anyone help with a translation? Thanks very much!

This way down?

Your stereo is possessed by an audio demon

That photo is sideways for starters.

Ming rules

That photo is sideways for starters.

Ha! Yes, don’t even have a clue which way up it goes. The second symbol looked a bit like a Kanji one this way up.

Your mother is a hamster, your father smells of elderberries….

“Made in China”

Girlfriend reckons that it isn’t Japanese (she’s been studying for years and live there for a bit).

Interesting, thanks – I was wondering if it was:

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In Chinese, maybe:

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Solved 😉

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kutani_ware

Ah ha cool!

Closest I could get is hoping it might be three characters:

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but that doesn’t mean anything as far as I can tell.

Oh I see Ben has solved it above 🙂

Hopefully old Japanese people can. 😉