Please translate this mug

December 18, 2014 12:27 PM

Can any [Japanese? Chinese?] speaker please translate this mug? I realize I only have a pic of one side of it, but it would be nice to know the gist of what it says. Thanks!!
posted by Dr. Send to Writing & Language (4 answers total)

It's Japanese. Looks like a bunch of names of types of fish--at a glance I see whale and hamachi/yellowtail, but I don't recognize the others.
posted by sunset in snow country at 12:31 PM on December 18, 2014 [1 favorite]

It lists lots of fish/sushi names. It's common to get a mug like this at a conveyor-belt sushi place.
posted by chocotaco at 12:32 PM on December 18, 2014 [2 favorites]

Fish names, accompanied by phonetic furigana.

It would be challenging to translate them all out, but here is a list of many of the names that are on that tea much: http://gohere.4japan.info/sushi-and-sashimi-dictionary/
posted by Nevin at 1:24 PM on December 18, 2014

Response by poster: Awesome, thanks everybody!
posted by Dr. Send at 2:19 PM on December 18, 2014