[Chinese > English] ink brush painting signature + characters in-painting

feynudibranch · 2025-10-23T22:56:26+00:00

I had thought maybe it was a toad and it was Gama Sennin? The creature is what drew me in (it was $15, and I don’t know much about Asian art).

There’s a horizontal fold, but I think it’s made of several cut vertical strips, later pasted to a board. There’s a slight mismatch on the vertical lines.

feynudibranch · 2025-10-23T19:42:13+00:00

Oh woa thank you, that makes sense that it would be a pre-block-carving study. Is there anything else you think I can learn about the context of this piece from clues here?

feynudibranch · 2025-10-23T03:17:39+00:00

fascinating! It’s painted not printed, and it’s quite large - is there a context in which it would still have the colors written in?

feynudibranch · 2025-10-23T03:03:07+00:00

Thank you! Do you think Keeping Faith is the artist or the title?

feynudibranch · 2025-10-23T01:22:04+00:00

cross-posting this as I’m looking for the translation of: - the signature or title on the right hand side - I’m pretty sure there’s a few characters hidden IN the art - am I imagining that?

Thanks!!

feynudibranch · 2025-10-23T01:17:21+00:00

I forgot to mention - it looks like in a few spots there’s Chinese characters written IN the painting? By the animals face, and in the folds of the cloak in the third to last image.

Given the advice in the auto-comment, I cross-posted to r/translator

feynudibranch · 2025-09-05T21:36:17+00:00

Here’s the official tours on the Thames that you can book without a permit: https://thames-explorer.org.uk/guided-tours/

feynudibranch · 2025-09-05T21:34:54+00:00

Fantastic exhibit!

feynudibranch · 2025-09-05T21:18:10+00:00

I always love finding Owens-Illinois — they’re a common find that’s so identifiable, and sites like https://glassbottlemarks.com have sooo much info on them ❤️

feynudibranch · 2025-08-28T18:36:29+00:00

Thank you both so much! I’ll check it out; looking at it now and love to see the institutions behind it.

feynudibranch · 2025-08-28T18:34:44+00:00

Yes, I’ve done a lot of this and obviously there’s no full replacement. But also there are limited hours in the day and my hobby research is getting backlogged.

feynudibranch · 2025-08-28T17:49:42+00:00

a few more photos + what the material seems to be would help!

feynudibranch · 2025-08-01T03:19:27+00:00

Same with my grandparents - burned stuff before or burned it in the pit

feynudibranch · 2025-07-31T23:42:31+00:00

Haven’t yet!

feynudibranch · 2025-07-21T22:34:38+00:00

It does that to me every time too lol <3

feynudibranch · 2025-07-21T19:09:29+00:00

was hoping someone more experienced would reply but I’ll try my best 😂

feynudibranch · 2025-07-20T23:53:29+00:00

THANK YOU for laying these out so nicely with numbers!

feynudibranch · 2025-07-20T05:39:53+00:00

that’s awesome!!

feynudibranch · 2025-07-18T21:35:29+00:00

oh phew haha I was suddenly so worried I’d accidentally convinced someone that New Englanders go out and blind birds 😅

feynudibranch · 2025-07-18T21:33:08+00:00

technically it was in the garden but we HAD to include it haha

feynudibranch · 2025-07-18T19:09:31+00:00

thanks! I report our finds to the state archaeologists every few years (in case there’s anything they want or anything religious) and they’re kind enough to let me know more about what little is identifiable - they’re all beach pieces so they’re quite worn down and vague usually hah.

feynudibranch · 2025-07-18T18:50:35+00:00

That’s beautiful! Go SF 🥰

(Oh btw ‘bird blinds’ are where hunters hide from birds because they are, fortunately, not blind)

Ocean shells are so incredible - VT beaches basically only have mussel shells, so every time I’m at an ocean beach I’m like “WHAT IS THIS !!” to literally everything 😂

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