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Preface: I only have a very basic understanding of Japanese writing (and
virtually zero actual vocabulary), and this is my first time posting here, so
please bear with me.

I'm trying to translate [some handwritten
text](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fLi68.jpg) I saw on a decorative print (linked
instead of embedded because it is a massive vertical image), and I'm having
trouble figuring out some of the characters (not the translation, I understand
this is not the site for that).

I managed to clumsily handwrite characters 2 through 9 into Google Translate:

花九九年肖二ナ日

This translates to "Flower of 1992", which makes sense, since the print is of
a flowering cherry tree branch, and could have reasonably been printed in
1992. However, I cannot even begin to decipher the first character (as the
strokes blur together), and I can't seem to get the last 4 characters right.
(The 3rd and 4th characters from the bottom look like they might be 王金, but if
I add those to the translation, it becomes 花九九年肖二ナ日王金 - "Flower of 1999 Ninja
king money")

The characters in the red square at the bottom completely baffle me. I'm
guessing they're kanji, or maybe some decorative variant.

Again, I'm not asking for a translation, just the Unicode equivalent of these
handwritten characters. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

**Edit:** [Here's the entire print](https://i.stack.imgur.com/FzqBo.jpg), in
case it helps.
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kanji handwriting
Need help transcribing handwritten characters
Leaving the first character aside, I can read everything else.

花九九年八月二十日王金龍画

My rough translation: Flower August 20 1999, king gold dragon drawing

As for the red characters, they are probably seal script from the stamp of the
name of the person who made it.

As far as I can tell, the first character has the tree radical on the left,
but that is true of many names for flowers so not sure how much you can get
from that. A native with experience in calligraphy might be able to tell you
what it is.
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> 梅花九九年八月二十日 王金龍画 王金龍印  
>  August 20, plum blossoms 99 - drawn by 王 金龍 - a seal/stamp of 王 金龍

This slip seems to be a part of a drawing/painting or a tag for it, because 画
_drawn by_ is used instead of 書 _written by_.

It seems that he drew this painting of plum blossoms in 1999, but it is not
the formal way because there is no space between 梅花 and 九九年.

王 金龍 drew this slip. The last red square figure is a seal/stamp to certify the
drawer is 王金龍 himself.

Judging from the stroke order of 王, 王 金龍 is a Chinese but not a Japanese.

I am sorry to say, but his calligraphy is poor.

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