Ibanez logo - Japanese???

Jemmm · #1 05-06-2005, 11:22 AM

Ibanez is Japanese company......but I've never seen the wording "Ibanez" in Japanese characters. Does anyone have this available?

Would be interesting to put that on headstock instead of normal lettering.

moro · #2 05-06-2005, 12:03 PM

Ibanez never uses the Japanese characters when referring to themselves. If you look at any of their literature (their website, for instance), "Ibanez" is always written in Roman characters.

If you were to write "Ibanez" in kana, this is what it would look like (you'll have to have a Japanese capable browser):

http://tinyurl.com/9aac7

But again, Ibanez never writes it that way.

Flobanez · #3 05-06-2005, 10:42 PM

I happen to be Japanese. Well,....half.
Nice, Moro!

JTM45 · #4 05-06-2005, 11:01 PM

I wish my browser could deal with Japanese text! I'm curious now as to what it looks like in Japanese. Japanese writing is very cool !!!!!!!!

I've often wondered about Japanese E bay. What's the score with it?

I would imagine that you could find some great J-Customs and Japanese market only Ibanez stuff on there. Is there any way you can access a translated version of the Japanese E bay?

lyconxero · #5 05-06-2005, 11:45 PM

On a semi-related topic, it would be nice if there was a US dealer who J-custom Ibanez guitars. I'd kill to get my hands on one of those....

Flobanez · #6 05-06-2005, 11:51 PM

I think a Japanese spelled Ibanez logo on the 12th fret would look sweet.

JTM45 · #7 05-07-2005, 12:15 AM

Agreed!!!!!
Or I imagine it would look good if I could see what it looks like,lol.

Am I correct in assuming that you can't translate an English word letter for letter into Japanese text?

RAI6 · #8 05-07-2005, 12:16 AM

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Originally Posted by moro

Ibanez never uses the Japanese characters when referring to themselves.

"Ibanez" is a Spanish name after all, so why write it in Japanese?

lyconxero · #9 05-07-2005, 02:34 AM

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Originally Posted by RAI6

"Ibanez" is a Spanish name after all, so why write it in Japanese?

Agreed

And it's also a trademarked name which is why it will always appear as it appears.

ZJH · #10 05-07-2005, 02:58 AM

I think Ibanez sounds better with the English pronunciation anyway.

Ibanez, sounds better than "Ay-bah-ne-zu" and "Ibáñez", IMO. ;p

Jemmm · #11 05-07-2005, 05:37 AM

Could someone post pic? Thanks.

invisible_kid_ · #12 05-07-2005, 06:56 AM

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Originally Posted by lyconxero

On a semi-related topic, it would be nice if there was a US dealer who J-custom Ibanez guitars. I'd kill to get my hands on one of those....

Hehe, we can get those quite easily in England for some reason. Well, a couple of places sell 'em. Tis better than not being able to get them at all hehe.

Flobanez · #13 05-07-2005, 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by JTM45

Agreed!!!!!
Or I imagine it would look good if I could see what it looks like,lol.

Am I correct in assuming that you can't translate an English word letter for letter into Japanese text?

Well, To some extent. Like Fire, Water, etc...
You could spell Ibanez right out in Japanese.

leppermessiah · #14 05-07-2005, 09:30 PM

You could write it in kanji, and the first kanji could be ”love" (ai), ba is a little more difficult. I only know 3 kanji for ba and they are "place", "horse" and "old woman", so take your pick. Ne could be "sound" which would be about perfect. now Zu had me stumped so i checked my dictionary and came up with "abstract thing" which is a kanji anybody familiar with kanji will recognise as the kanji from 'kaJI' for fire or 'daiJI' for take care. So it would come out as "Love-place-sound-abstract". for those of you who can read it, it will look like this: ”愛場音事”.

moro · #15 05-07-2005, 11:17 PM

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Originally Posted by leppermessiah

You could write it in kanji, and the first kanji could be ”love" (ai), ba is a little more difficult. I only know 3 kanji for ba and they are "place", "horse" and "old woman", so take your pick. Ne could be "sound" which would be about perfect. now Zu had me stumped so i checked my dictionary and came up with "abstract thing" which is a kanji anybody familiar with kanji will recognise as the kanji from 'kaJI' for fire or 'daiJI' for take care. So it would come out as "Love-place-sound-abstract". for those of you who can read it, it will look like this: ”愛場音事”.

Ok, this is completely off-topic and a boring language discussion besides, but the above is incorrect. You could ask a million native Japanese to read the above and none of them would read is as "Ibanez."

First, you can't just transliterate Western words into Japanese by applying kanji phoenetically. That's not how Japanese works. Very rarely, it's done for effect but the vast majority of the time, you're going to use katakana. This is a phoenetic character set whose main purpose is writing foreign words. I posted "Ibanez" in katakana before:

アイバニーズ

If you do decide to use kanji, then you need to pick them carefully because unlike kana, each character has a meaning and multiple readings. The first two kanji above would probably be read as "eye bah" or "ai joh." (In either case, this is a bad choice of kanji because it makes it sound like you're talking about a brothel. "Love place.") The second two fail completely though. Most likely, the third will be read as "o" "on" or "oto" because "neh" is a less common reading. The fourth would never be read as "zu." That's an extremely rare reading. More commonly, it's read as "ji" or "koto."

Also, the Japanese pronunciation of Ibanez is "eye bah nee zu" not "eye bah neh zu" so you're looking for a "ni" character for the third syllable.

Sorry if I sound harsh, but the above post was really inaccurate.