two characters in chinese painted by a japanese artist

English translation: JING JIN

11:27 Dec 8, 2018

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Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting

Chinese term or phrase: two characters in chinese painted by a japanese artist

I'm not sure how to upload the file to this question, it's a jpeg of two chinese characters, the first one is apparently "respect" but I've been asking around and no one seems able to tell me what the second character is exactly or what the meaning would be of the two of them together. any help appreciated - it's a painting I've found in my flat and have no idea where it came from!

davidgreen

English translation:JING JIN

Explanation:
JING JIN is the transliteration for the two Chinese characters (when pronounced as Chinese)

敬 = JING, means "respect"
津 = JIN，means a ferry or a ford

But 敬津 is not a word in Chinese, except for the possibility of it being a name of a place, or even a person

大内智子 is a Japanese female name, and transliterated as Tomoko Ouchi (Japanese pronunciation) according to Google

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Frank Feng
China
Local time: 10:11

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thanks Frank (and other Frank). Funny that the artist would paint two characters that don't mean anything together but everyone seems to agree.
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JING JIN

Frank Feng
China
Local time: 10:11
Native speaker of: Chinese
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

thanks Frank (and other Frank). Funny that the artist would paint two characters that don't mean anything together but everyone seems to agree.

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