I don’t know if this is the right community to ask about this. I’ll delete the post if it’s not.

I got this tea set at a thrift store today and I tried to look up the makers mark out of curiosity, but I’m awful with kanji and I havent been able to get any online tools to help figure it out. I know it’s probably not anything special, but I’m still curious.

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    5 days ago

    The one on the sticker is normally written as 宮 (miya - big shrine, palace). There is a way of writing Kanji that makes them even boxier than the standard ones, often for use in stamps that painters use to sign their work. This looks like a stylised version of that with a thicker brush stroke where they just extended the little vertical lines downward. For fun.

    The hand painted ones are upside down. No clear idea how to read them honestly because the combination doesn’t appear to be used much or is a place that is famous enough. 美 (maybe mi - beautiful, august) 峰 (probably mine - mountain ridge). Could be a place or a quote from a haiku where shit gets condensed like a tweet or something.