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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JayBee, post: 2417982, member: 9259&quot;]The characters are Chinese. The Japanese adopted the Chinese characters (and call them kanji, to which they added the phonetic hiragana and katakana) but they are Chinese,&nbsp; 信令. </p><p>&quot;Xin ling&quot; doesn&#039;t mean anything in Chinese, other than what I mentioned. </p><p>And yes, it could be that the piece is Japanese and not Chinese. Seeing the whole piece would help. In that case, if Japanese, someone else might know what they mean. </p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>[QCouch Potato Wannabe, post: 2417742, member: 14066&quot;]Possibly, yes, but those characters are shared in Japanese too.&nbsp; Plus Japan does have examples of similar pottery maker marks too.</p><p>For example this is the aoki mokube mark. [ATTACH=full]263761[/ATTACH]</p><p>Obviously not the same mark though.[/QUOTE][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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