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<p>[QUOTE="User 67, post: 18897, member: 67"]It looks like a graphic art, 1960s, Japanese font to me, but the Koreans were using similar styles in the 60s. I don't read either and I am not an expert. You know, there is a long tradition of calligraphy as art in Japan, so artistic, brush stroke or expressive calligraphy even from the 19th cent. can actually look quite modern. </p><p><br /></p><p>The idea that this was made in the American internment camps (from melted dimes) isn't too far fetched, but I wonder if making art that used secret Japanese code symbols was wise while you were being held in a government prison for possible treason.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="User 67, post: 18897, member: 67"]It looks like a graphic art, 1960s, Japanese font to me, but the Koreans were using similar styles in the 60s. I don't read either and I am not an expert. You know, there is a long tradition of calligraphy as art in Japan, so artistic, brush stroke or expressive calligraphy even from the 19th cent. can actually look quite modern. The idea that this was made in the American internment camps (from melted dimes) isn't too far fetched, but I wonder if making art that used secret Japanese code symbols was wise while you were being held in a government prison for possible treason.[/QUOTE]
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