Japanese Pottery Translation, HELP!

[Luke]

A Korean told me these are in Mandarin. A Chinese person told me it's in Japanese.

Can someone please translate, or point me in the right direction to some place I can find a translation?

Thanks in advance.

[Xeogred]

Is this homework Luke?

[Luke]

Is this homework Luke?

It's more embarrassing than that... I'm antiquing.

[Xeogred]

Hah, in your defense it's pretty cool. And yeah probably a good thing to know what it means.

[brunoafh]

Looks like Japanese, but the kanji is too fancy for me.

[dedalusdedalus]

Definitely Japanese. On the third picture, I can make out the hiragana for "mi" and "ra." Can't read the kanji though.

[Luke]

Definitely Japanese. On the third picture, I can make out the hiragana for "mi" and "ra." Can't read the kanji though.

Thanks for the information.

I think it's from the late 1800's or early 1900's, but I'm trying to make sure it is authentic. All tips help, and again thanks.

[Xeogred]

Reminds me how the vocals for the Ghost in the Shell movie theme are supposedly in ancient Japanese.

This must be Secret Ancient Japanese.

[brunoafh]

On the third picture, I can make out the hiragana for "mi" and "ra." Can't read the kanji though.

I think that's "chi", and that line says Michiru or Michiro. Not sure though, it's hard to read. There's other kana in the 3rd picture too: ku, no, yo, and ke stand out.

The only kanji I can clearly make out in the 3rd pic is yama (山), which means mountain.

The first pic looks like it has the kanji dai (大) in it, which means great.

[Luke]

Thanks for the tips so far guys.