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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 683447, member: 4703&quot;]I was about to opine that the piece is Chinese when I saw this post.&nbsp; Further research after my original post gave the reading (in <i>Japanese</i>) of &quot;Kan Ryu Tsu Ho&quot;.&nbsp; &quot;Tong bao&quot; and &quot;Tsu Ho&quot; are the same characters, read in Chinese or Japanese, and basically mean &quot;money&quot;.&nbsp; The first two characters represent an era (&quot;Nengo&quot; in Japanese), and since there was never a &quot;Kan Ryu&quot; Nengo, the process of elimination led to the conclusion that it was Chinese in origin.&nbsp; Manymore&#039;s post has now allowed me to tag &quot;Kan&quot;/&quot;Qian&quot; and &quot;Ryu&quot;/&quot;Long&quot; as the alternate readings of those characters.Agreed![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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