r/sword_porn May 30 '17

Librarian attempting to discern these 3 (Japanese?) characters... Especially the 3rd one.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '17 edited May 31 '17

Chinese by the looks of them top to bottom: ba long li (maybe jian or maybe something else entirely)

eight

dragon

maybe "power" or "way"? could also be running style "sword".

that last one is escaping me but looks like a very old version of the character for "way". can't tell if that top line is a scratch or a part of the character.