Over at the White Elephant exchange, I received this shadowbox deal with Asian writing. I’m ashamed to say I don’t know if it’s Chinese or Japanese. Here’s a kind of crappy close-up. Since I have to display it all year, I’d like to know what it means.
I had some doubts about the second character but the rest is easy to read. It means: crane’s beak noble. (The last two characters together mean noble.) It reads out as: