Help needed please with Chinese transmutation of WW2 helmet

[889]

Here you go:

 

[大块头]

That's a neat trick @889. Did you do that with Photoshop or something?

 

I posted these pictures to the HelloTalk.

[889]

Yes, just playing around wih the colour balance, saturation, and contrast to bring out the script.

[Dlezcano]

According to the photo with the green lines, I would say the text reads (from right to left) 照和喫屎, which means "eat shit Showa", but the first character should be 昭 and not 照, so I am not sure al all if it is written wrongly or if I did any mistake.

[889]

I think it's a good guess that the four characters read the same on both places, but that means you have to read the one inscription left to right.

[Dean clements]

Wow now that’s cool 

Any luck on this one 

[889]

Like I said, it's pretty clear those four characters (only three of which are visible) are the same as the characters on the other photo.

[Dlezcano]

that is exactly the same writing read from down to top, which is actually very weird for Chinese language. My guess is that a non native copied it from somewhere.

[889]

"My guess is that a non native copied it from somewhere."

 

Except that writing 照 for 昭 is the sort of mistake a native speaker might make. Someone blindly copying 昭 from somewhere isn't going to mistakenly add 四点火.

[大块头]

The non-native copying characters has to get the characters from somewhere. Perhaps a native-speaker mistakenly wrote the wrong character someplace else and this soldier copied it onto his helmet.

[Dawei3]

The varied abilities of those on this forum always impresses me (in this case, 889's).  I had no idea how to enhance the image to bring out the characters.  It was cool reading the forum & watching the characters emerge from the helmet.  

[ibag]

屎卸(切)和(后)照

[Dean clements]

thankyou to everyone that’s helped with the translation, there is more writing to come 

 

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