I have been reading this manga that Tofugu recommends to learn Japanese, Fushigi Neko No Kyuu-chan , and it’s got some hard-to-read fonts. I’ve been able to read most of it but I was hoping someone could help me read this:
In the future, if you wanna train yourself to be able to recognize Kanji in strange fonts, you can always try the Jitai script. It randomizes Kanji fonts during your reviews(so long as you install the ones that come with the script).
Something that helps me when I don’t recognize kanji is looking it up through Jisho using either the “write” or the “radical” function; it’s really been useful to deciphering unknowns.
My parents have some pottery from Japan. They asked me to decipher it. Took me an hour, but thanks to Jisho, duckduckgo, and luck, I managed to pin it down: turns out it is old pottery from Mikawachi, in what was then still called the Hendo domain. It’s from the Edo era!
Depends on if it’s real I suppose. Not saying it isn’t, but there’s plenty of modern souvenirs with that kind of inscription. Especially common in Asia.