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I don’t know if this is the right community to ask about this. I’ll delete the post if it’s not.

I got this tea set at a thrift store today and I tried to look up the makers mark out of curiosity, but I’m awful with kanji and I havent been able to get any online tools to help figure it out. I know it’s probably not anything special, but I’m still curious.

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[–] Efflixi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

MEIFENG as best as I can tell. Please note, I can not read Kanji but it seems this is the wrong orientation in the pic. I had to crop it and rotate it to get it to translate.

[–] farmgineer@nord.pub 4 points 2 days ago

Feng is not valid Japanese (must end in vowel or n) so it's getting translated as Chinese which does allow that.

[–] FRYD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah I got that result on google translate too, but the kanji or hanzi symbols it picks out are wrong.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Using my iPhone to translate I got the same thing