Quick translation help!

[PinyinHarry]

Hi there,

 

Can any of you kind people help me with a quick translation of the characters in this photo? It is a wooden stamp from Hero Arts.

 

Many thanks in advance as always!

 

[scottt]

Big 5 characters are  詩哥寫真錢
Smaller right 2 characters might be 木 斌   (本 賦 ?)
Smaller left 1 is   外
 

[Lu]

本城外 perhaps? 'Outside of this city'?

The third character isn't 写 I think, but I can't tell what it is.

[Nathan Mao]

I get the same thing as scottt for the big characters: 詩哥寫真錢

 

So what I'm getting, loosely translated, is:

 

Writing poems/songs is like printing your own money

Or

You can make lots of money with poetry and songs.

 

I didn't even bother with the three little characters because:

1) they are hard to see

2) they are probably the name of the author of the quote...as such, there is no context to figure out indistinct character elements.

[Kenny同志]

The text makes no sense to me. It's gibberish.

[scottt]

There was one famous Japanese painter (葛飾北斎,Katsushika Hokusai )
who had collection called “詩哥写真鏡” ( A Realistic Mirror of Poets)

 

Note that the last character is different.|
But the rest translation may be used in this topic.
 

Thus,

詩哥 = Poet;  Buddy who likes the poems (詩, 詩歌)

写真 was originated from Japanese.

        It means "Photo" or "Taking Photos"

Thus, 詩哥写真錢 might be interpret as "Money for (poet) taking photos"

 

[Tiana]

It's a good find, scottt!

 

(Although I've seen the original translation in the jpg, I'd translate  “詩哥写真鏡” as "Poetry (like a mirror) reflects reality".)

[PinyinHarry]

Thank you guys so much for your help and input!

[Demonic_Duck]

So what I'm getting, loosely translated, is:

 

Writing poems/songs is like printing your own money

Or

You can make lots of money with poetry and songs.

哥, not 歌...

[Nathan Mao]

Yep, I read too fast.

[陳德聰]

To me it doesn't really look like 錢, it looks like a sloppy copy of 鏡, just like the rest of the characters which have random parts that are connected where they shouldn't be, kind of like a bad tattoo. It wouldn't make sense if 錢 were used there, since in Japanese it doesn't even mean "money".

At best it's an attempt to imitate the title of 詩哥寫真鏡.

Also, 哥 is sometimes used to mean 歌, so Nathan Mao is not so terribly mistaken in that reading.