Show your Japanese cups

**Nick Komiya** · 06-08-2019, 09:03 PM

That is from the Russo-Japanese War.

**Jareth** · 06-11-2019, 07:11 PM

New cup. Not a type I've seen before

**rra227** · 06-12-2019, 08:34 PM

Neat! Rich A. in Pa.

**OldeSarge** · 06-30-2019, 10:49 PM

I hope I'm not too far off base here, but I have an IJA rice bowl with original IJA issued chopsticks. This bowl is not a very high quality piece of porcelain but I am interested in your opinions. The inside of the bowl has a pretty big set of imperfections/inclusions under the glaze. I have only ever seen one other set of WW2 IJA chopsticks and they were identical to these. This set was acquired from a veteran.

**Jareth** · 07-01-2019, 08:36 PM

New cup. I believe naval base construction unit

**rra227** · 07-02-2019, 11:18 PM

Nice. Rich A. in Pa.

**bestmsdt** · 07-03-2019, 09:18 PM

Got this a little while ago. I like the shape. Didn't realise it was from the Russo-Japanese War until I saw an item in this thread. Been working on my kanji since and with the help of the JiShop application and jisho.org believe it reads the following:

SEIRO War with Russia
GAISEN KINEN Triumphal Return Commemoration
The name is tough, think it is an abbreviated KAKUI.

Cheers,
Tony

**ghp95134** · 07-03-2019, 09:56 PM

Made by
松井
Matsui

Matsui means Pine Well [as in water well] .... note the name is framed within two long-leaf pine needles.

--Guy

**bestmsdt** · 07-03-2019, 11:16 PM

Thanks for the input Guy, and the observation re the pine needles. I got fixated on it being a square hence after a lot of time going for Kakui! Is Matsui the maker then, and not the present giver? There's nothing on the back.
Cheers,
Tony