Quick help

[Maeg]

Hello,

 

I have an asiatic teaware. I thought it was chinese until I looked under the teacups and teapots : they are some marks, but it doesn't look like chinese characters for me. Does somebody recognize those ?

[skylee]

I think it is 岩口. I think the inverted L shape at top is just style.

PS - actually, the second symbol looks more like こ than 口 ...

[Maeg]

Ok, thank you very much   I didn't even noticed they were 3 characters ^^"  I don't speak Chinese, 岩, "Yán", would mean "rock" ? And the last one would be こ, "Ko" ? I searched on Wiktionary, and it's written that this one is a Japanese character which comes from  己, but I don't know it's signification (I also noticed that こ wasn't on every piece of the teaware). I guess that the things written refer to the place of where it has been made.
PS - Sorry if I make mistakes, I'm not an english-speaker ^_^

[TheBigZaboon]

I second skylee's reading.

 

 I agree, too, that the upsidedown "L" shape over the top and down the right-hand side is probably a design feature for a logo or something. That kind of design is not uncommon in traditional Japanese logos.

 

If the objects are Japanese, the reading would probably be pronounced "Iwaguchi."