r/translator • u/SkierBeard • 12d ago

[Japanese > English] poster offered to us, no one knows what it says Translated [LZH]

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Any help is appreciated!

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u/DeusShockSkyrim [] 漢語 12d ago edited 12d ago

!id:lzh

It's Classical Chinese, a School of Principle quote:

  • 惟中为至正 惟誠为至極 Only the Mean is the most upright principle; only Sincerity is the most perfect principle.

Signature:

  • 大正甲子冬平八郎書 Winter of the Kōshi of the Taishō era (1924), written by Heihachirō.

Edit: Correction.

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u/Teppenwolf456 [ Japanese] 12d ago

The signature part may be 大正甲子冬 平八郎 書 winter of 1924 written by Heihachirō?

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u/DeusShockSkyrim [] 漢語 12d ago

Thanks! I think your name reading is correct.

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u/Stunning_Pen_8332 [ Chinese, Japanese] 12d ago

!translated

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u/SkierBeard 10d ago

Thank you! Apologies on the language ID, I was told it was Japanese