Easy peace?

[Solvi]

I found a guitar strap with some Japanese writing on it, and I bought it out of curiosity, I wanted to find out what it said. It has 楽平和 written on it, and Babel Fish gave me the translation "easy peace". Is this correct? I also found out that with a little imagination it might mean "turn down the volume" - if I use some of the other meanings of the kanji...

[Bueller_007]

I found a guitar strap with some Japanese writing on it, and I bought it out of curiosity, I wanted to find out what it said. It has 楽平和 written on it, and Babel Fish gave me the translation "easy peace". Is this correct? I also found out that with a little imagination it might mean "turn down the volume" - if I use some of the other meanings of the kanji...

楽 in this case probably means music, but could mean comfort,ease or happiness
平 means calm/peace
和 means peace/harmony

[Solvi]

Yeah, I looked up the kanji and found their meanings, but I still don't understand what the whole phrase means. All I know is that the last two kanji mean "peace" when they stand together.

Also, it would be interesting to learn the reading of the phrase.

[Bueller_007]

Yeah, I looked up the kanji and found their meanings, but I still don't understand what the whole phrase means. All I know is that the last two kanji mean "peace" when they stand together.

Also, it would be interesting to learn the reading of the phrase.

It's not a phrase. Which is why I chose not to group the last kanji together. It most likely represents three separate thoughts: Music/Comfort, Peace, Harmony

And unless the strap was manufactured by a Japanese company, I wouldn't be surprised if it were Chinese, not Japanese writing. The West has an obsession with Chinese writing. You can tell if it's Chinese by looking carefully at the first kanji. In Japanese, it is written as: 楽 and in Chinese as: 樂.

As for pronunciation, even if it is Japanese, it's most likely pronounced using the (Chinese) on'yomi:
楽 = raku
平 = hei
和 = wa

But because it's not a real Japanese phrase/word, I can't say this for sure.

[Solvi]

The strap is white with a red filled circle on it, so I suppose it's Japanese... But even though it's not a phrase - at least I now can rest assured that it has a positive meaning

[Bueller_007]

The strap is white with a red filled circle on it, so I suppose it's Japanese... But even though it's not a phrase - at least I now can rest assured that it has a positive meaning

Yes, stories abound about people who've gotten the wrong kanji tattooed on them.

The best one is this:
The person intends to get 恋人 (koibito, lover) tattooed on their arm, but the tattoo artist accidentally writes 変人 (henjin, strange person).

[henway]

Yeah, here in San Diego I ran across a guy with Henjin tatooed on his arm and asked him if he knew. He responded a bit sheepishly that it was a mistake. I didn't put the 2+2 to figure out he was trying to to put koibito on instead--I was hung up thinking he was wanting to point out he was on the "hen" side...

[Bueller_007]

Yeah, here in San Diego I ran across a guy with Henjin tatooed on his arm and asked him if he knew. He responded a bit sheepishly that it was a mistake. I didn't put the 2+2 to figure out he was trying to to put koibito on instead--I was hung up thinking he was wanting to point out he was on the "hen" side...

In a place like Cali, I imagine there'd be enough Chinese and Japanese people running around that it wouldn't go unnoticed either.