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I can often translate and tell you something about your painting. I do this for the token amount of $20. If interested, just add this item to your cart and checkout: http://www.orientaloutpost.com/proddetail.php?prod=eval Use the coupon code 5Bucks to get $5 off and make it $15 instead of $20. Hopef...

I can have this translated for you. The token amount is $10:
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Cheers,
-Gary.

The video was apparently moved to here:

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Sorry for the late reply. I totally missed this post. You have "Chi" or "Qi", which can be defined as energy or spirit. Though it's more complicated than just that. Yours is a very stylized variation of the character. Other versions look like this: http://www.orientaloutpost.com/charimg.php?chars=27...

Take a look at this page: http://www.orientaloutpost.com/good-luck.php The first entry is the most common good luck symbol across all of Asia (used in China, Japan, old Korean, old Vietnamese, Singapore, and also seen in Malaysia, and Chinese communities in Thailand around the world. If you need tat...

戦 Japanese variant of 戰|战 (suffix) (1) war; battle; (2) match; competition; (1) war; battle; campaign; fight; (2) (archaism) troops; forces; (surname) Sen; (personal name) Isao 抜 is not in my Japanese dictionary, though noted as a Japanese variant of a Chinese character. Japanese variant of 拔[ba2] 拔...

Yes, I know his son was taking over the family business, but I have lost track of him. Next time I have a chance, I will head to the village where Mr. Wang lived and see if I can track him down.

They are on the way, tracking number 9405510200883299063880

Should be delivered tomorrow:
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I don't know the first one, but the second one (with the beard) is the god of prosperity and affluence: http://www.orientaloutpost.com/proddetail.php?prod=jb-luxing-3 If you need appraisal advice, start with this article that I wrote 9 years ago: http://www.orientaloutpost.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=...

It's signed 雲林 which is the Japanese surname Kumobayashi. The meaning is "cloud forest". This can be easily confused with Yunlin county in Taiwan (Yunlin being how it's romanized from Chinese). This is sometimes a Japanese given name, Unrin (pronunciation borrowed into Japanese from Chinese). The ch...

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Here you go: http://www.orientaloutpost.com/options.php?image=scroll-single http://www.orientaloutpost.com/options.php?image=scroll-2a http://www.orientaloutpost.com/options.php?image=scroll-2b I have a batch of artwork I need to send to Beijing this coming week. I forget if you are in the USA, but ...

These old "fang zhuanshu" or "square seal script" characters are always tough to decipher. There are over about 30,000 of them. Not all of the descendants of these characters are still in common use today. Also, there are often upwards of 20 variants of each zhuanshu character. I have several specia...

First, this is Chinese, not Japanese. Here's the big caveat regarding artist information: http://www.orientaloutpost.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2407 For telling you more about the value, you need an expert: http://www.orientaloutpost.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9 For $10, I will translate and give you ...

That is a nice guardian lioness - very unique, as I have not seen one in that style/pose before. Too bad you don't have the complete set. If you told me that you bought this 20+ years ago, I would say the likelihood of it being a real antique was higher. Around the year 2000, they kind of started to...

While we are not late yet, we are going to be. This was sent with 30 other customers' orders to my studio in the USA. I'll be shipping it to you via Air Mail to the Netherlands tomorrow. Sorry for the delay. Normally we ship custom artwork direct from Beijing to Europe. This was a bit of a mistake o...

You can email it to me: gary@orientaloutpost.com

If too big for email, use Dropbox or Google Drive.

Yours is not the worst. Here is my collection of memorable tattoos that did not mean what these inked folks thought their tattoos represented... "Terrible Mistake" http://www.orientaloutpost.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=438 "Terrible Mistake" (part 2 and 3) http://www.orientaloutpost.com/forum/viewtopi...

The total length will be over 5 feet with the top and bottom panels of the scroll. If you provide a longer image, I can make everything longer. I am just limited to about 68cm paper panel width, as the finished wall scroll must fit in a 36" mailing tube if bound for the USA via air mail. The length ...

There are about 30 times more Chinese people than Japanese people in the world. You will encounter far more native Chinese people in the USA (except in Hawaii). You'll need to be ready to explain it to both. This reads very similarly in both languages. The uphill battle is that we have this unusual ...

I presume what you meant this to say is a suggestion of reverence to God. This was one of the older English definitions of "fear". The problem is, the antiquated definition of fear and the common modern definition are quite different. So, you can say that your tattoo means, "fear god" or even "fear ...

Here are the dictionary definitions of 恐怖... Chinese: terrible; frightful; frightening; terror; terrorist. Japanese: fear; dread; dismay; terror; horror; scare; panic. This is the suffix of these words... 恐怖症 means phobia in Chinese and Japanese. 恐怖片 means horror movie in Chinese. 恐怖主義 means terrori...

I set this up with the maximum dimensions that I am sure I can get shipped out of Beijing. I might be able to go a little bigger if we do this soon, and my wife hand carries it back from Beijing on August 21st when she flies to the USA. Check this out: http://www.orientaloutpost.com/options.php?imag...

The original one (not the one you titled "reverse") is the correct orientation. The large characters say 神風 ("kami kaze" or "divine wind"). This is written from right-to-left as ancient Japanese was (modern Japanese is written left-to-right, like English). It would take me a while to translate the s...

Well, if we ignore the normal usage in Christianity, this is how you would say God is my savior... 上帝是我救主 shàng dì shì wǒ jiù zhǔ 上帝 God 是 is 我 my/me 救主 savior When you are ready, you can order your tattoo template here: http://www.orientaloutpost.com/chinese-character-japanese-kanji-tattoo-service....