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Scroll Translation Help

Greetings from Paris! I found this wooden-slat "scroll" in an antique market and was wondering if any of you might be able to help translate it? Not sure what language it is. The seller said the top character was happiness or related, but the below looks more like pictograms than any Japanese/Chinese characters I have seen.

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See you all soon!

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From a bit of googling, the top character is Fortune and the rest is something called Seal Script, which was a way to write Chinese characters around in 500 BCE - 200 CE. Apparently its all about blessings and different kinds of good fortune

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