Anyone fluent in Japanese?
 

In doing research on the early Matsumoko, etc basses------have found sites in Japanese that may give us some answers. Need someone who can read it!!! Anyone??

the internet is an amazing tool..
Simply copy the text and paste into Google Translate and it will
convert to English..but you already knew that
http://translate.google.com/

Had no idea of that google tool. Thank you very much-------will try it out. That will solve some German problems too then!