{"id":4481,"date":"2011-02-16T10:50:13","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T10:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=4481"},"modified":"2011-02-16T10:50:13","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T10:50:13","slug":"puzzle-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=4481","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A visitor to Omniglot would like your help deciphering the writing below. It comes from an old silk painting which appears Chinese, or maybe Japanese.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/birdcharacters.jpg\" width=\"481\" height=\"358\" alt=\"Writing from old painting\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The bit on the left appears to be a signature which I think is \u4e09\u6286\u5411 (San Wenxiang) and perhaps the name of a town \u5713\u5c71\uff1f (Yuanshan ?) &#8211; a small town in Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>The other bit of writing might be a poem, though I can&#8217;t make out all of the characters (reading vertically from right to left): \u661a\u4e2d\u6591  (sh\u00e8n zh\u014dng\u200b b\u0101n) \u4e00\u9762\u4e8c\u6709\u200b (y\u012b\u200b mi\u00e0n \u00e8r y\u01d2u\u200b). The characters in the third row from the right might be Chinese hanzi: \u529b\u5915\uff1f\u77f3 (l\u00ec x\u012b\u200b ? sh\u00ed), or Japanese katakana: \u30ab\u30bf\u30ce\u77f3 (ka ta no shiki), and in the next line \u4e8c\u800c\uff1f (\u00e8r \u00e9r ?). I&#8217;m not sure about the characters in the last line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A visitor to Omniglot would like your help deciphering the writing below. It comes from an old silk painting which appears Chinese, or maybe Japanese. The bit on the left appears to be a signature which I think is \u4e09\u6286\u5411 (San Wenxiang) and perhaps the name of a town \u5713\u5c71\uff1f (Yuanshan ?) &#8211; a small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-puzzles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}