Need help to translate from Japanese

[shuji matsuda]

In article <klpr50lqtebeqhe4q...@4ax.com>, new...@covad.net wrote:

:It seems to me I heard somewhere that Sverker Nyberg wrote in article
:<405D6F71...@artinuppsala.com>:
:
:>Need help to translate marks on 2 Satsuma vases and text on a Japanese
:>woodcut.
:>Pictures can be found at:
:>http://www.artinuppsala.com/auction/2satsumavaserfraga.jpg

:
:For the one on the right:
:
:Dai Nippon
:Satsuma-guni Nishikidani
:Tsunenobu kaku *
:* I'll leave it to experts whether this is a proper name and, if so, to
:give the correct reading.
:
:Great [Imperial?] Japan
:Satsuma Province, Brocade Valley
:Design (or "made") by Tsunenobu [Shoshin?]

:For the one on the left:
:
:Dai Nippon
:Satsuma-guni Nishikidani
:Tora[something]-in Tsunenobu
:
:Tiger[something]Temple/Monastery Tsunenobu

大日本
薩摩国恒信画

or

大日本
薩摩国錦谷虎勢院恒信画

虎勢院　should be 院号, not a name of some place.

:My goal was simply to make it available, not to make it a good
:translation.
:
:Satisfaction guaranteed, if you're easily enough satisfied. :-)
:
:>http://www.artinuppsala.com/auction/japwoodcut.jpg
:
:I pass on that specialized writing style. There are others who can
:probably puzzel it out.

これですが、話は大体分かります。
そもそもこれは瓦版で、新宿四ッ谷の寺の仁王さんの水晶の目をとろうとした
泥棒に、何かがおきたわけですね。上の囲みが記事、したが挿し絵で、その
説明文。

で、解読できる人、いませんか？
私の分かったところは書いておきます。分からないところは（）の中。
変態ガナとカタカナの混用と素晴らしい草書体のために、私には非常に
読みにくい。

上のところ。
＝＝＝＝＝＝
四ッ谷新宿大宗寺

閻魔大王は仏師運慶の作なり。
御丈サウ丈六尺。（サウ丈とは何？）
目の玉八寸の水晶なれば、
これを盗み取らんと、
当三月六日の夜、
盗賊忍び入り、
目の玉くり抜かんとせし時 （時？）
たちまち御目より光明を
＝＝＝＝＝＝

私はこれくらい。

[Louise Bremner]

shuji matsuda <shuji__...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> In article <klpr50lqtebeqhe4q...@4ax.com>, new...@covad.net
wrote:
>
> :It seems to me I heard somewhere that Sverker Nyberg wrote in article
> :<405D6F71...@artinuppsala.com>:
> :
> :>Need help to translate marks on 2 Satsuma vases and text on a Japanese
> :>woodcut.
> :>Pictures can be found at:
> :>http://www.artinuppsala.com/auction/2satsumavaserfraga.jpg

Those are stunningly ugly vases.... Were they made for the tourist
trade?

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