I hope this isn’t too similar to other topics, but what I was thinking for this thread, is that people post screenshots or photos of Japanese writing (signs, packaging, etc.) that use non-standard fonts or calligraphy/handwriting. My thinking is that native Japanese people are able to read these eas…

[image] Belthazar: (If it helps any, temple number 9 is named 明智寺.) 明智 is not read as あけち？ According to my phone’s IME it is read as あけち.

[image] Saida: 明智 is not read as あけち？ Oh. Why, yes it is. And I knew that, too… Also realised that 聞ける means “to tell”. “If you tell of that name, Akechi-ji, the moon in your heart will not become enclouded”… perhaps? Welp, let’s ignore this shame by quickly moving on to the next one. [IM…

Something like is my guess. :sweat_smile:

Aye, that’s roughly what I figured. What happened to the left half of the な, though? And why’s the furigana on the 六 written むつ? And… what’s it mean? Suddenly occurred to me that I could Google, and turned up this (though a warning, that site is fairly resource-heavy on my computer). That’d help w…

[image] Belthazar: What happened to the left half of the な :face_with_hand_over_mouth: … yeah, it turned to be a small よ. I think it means something in the lines of “devotedly asking your requests in 大慈 temple the sufferings of the six realms should change”… or something entirely different …

[image] Belthazar: Also realised that 聞ける means “to tell”. Not to rain on your parade, but the 聞(き)けば there is a conjugation of 聞(き)く. If it was 聞(き)ければ it’d be a different story though.

Ooo, nice. Let’s see how many I can locate. And how many of them I’ve been to myself. :slightly_smiling_face: Reading all of the text on them is definitely going to be beyond me, though. ▶ Summary Ah, this is taking me longer than I’d thought. Gonna have to lay off for now.

[image] jneapan: Not to rain on your parade, but the 聞(き)けば there is a conjugation of 聞(き)く. If it was 聞(き)ければ it’d be a different story though. Aye, I realised that shortly after I posted. I think we agreed to ignore my shame, though. :stuck_out_tongue:

[image] Belthazar: I think we agreed to ignore my shame, though. :stuck_out_tongue: :eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes: Who exactly agreed?

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Ornantius November 6, 2019, 9:23am 158

Here are a bunch of 御朱印 of varying readability:

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