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Old Japanese script meaning 2018/12/21 05:19
Hello, I have an old postcard from Japan.
I asked the Japanese people. It is old Japanese script. Can someone read it?
Many Thanks.

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Greetings albuks
by albuks  

Re: Old Japanese script meaning 2018/12/21 11:54
I can tell it is addressed to someone with a surname "Ueda" 上田 but for the rest, no (the script handwriting is difficult to decipher). The bottom part in your photo is the front with the address and name of the recipient. The main text on the other side is upsidedown, and even when I turn it around I cannot decipher the script enough to make sense out of it. And yes I am Japanese.
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Re: Old Japanese script meaning 2018/12/22 22:39
This is "ordinary postcard" posted about 90 years ago from the stamp price.

By postmark of Kyoto, it is addressed to the same address of 西京(Saikyo) in Kyoto,
but I do not know the detailed place name and address.

It was sent to a man named "上田五一 Ueda Goichi",
and the sender does not know whether it is "千乃(Senno or Chino)", it is like a woman name.

Although the contents of the back side could not be read perfectly,
"大寿用(taiju or daiju yo)" on the surface,
and "大寿用に漬物(tsukemono) = good pickles for birthday" is written at the end of the sentence.
In other words, it seems to be related to someone's celebration.
Geisha has not last name, so it may be a DM (as invitation card) for customers.
The history of dishes using 西京味噌(Saikyo miso) is long, one kind of 白味噌(shiro = white miso).

Either way, seems important content is not written.
So, I do not think that it is the content to know until requesting pay service for ancient documents.

Although it may be able to decode in more detail by using this,
http://mojizo.nabunken.go.jp/
it is inefficient to investigate one character at a time, and it is not necessarily to be surely found out.
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Re: Old Japanese script meaning 2019/1/18 08:02
I have understood. It's a letter from a geisha to a man, because of a birthday?
Oh, this secret Japan.
Vielen Dank!
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