Original Japanese WWII Hand Painted Cloth Flag with Fantastic Tiger Motif & Mt. Fuji - 26½ x 39”
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Original Item: One-of-a-kind. This flag is made of silk and is hand painted with a very detailed hand painted tiger and the outline of Mount Fuji. The flag measures roughly 26½ x 39” and retains both of its corner reinforcements with the tie-strings.
This example has no Kanji writing, so it is likely a flag painted as a souvenir for a U.S. soldier stationed there during occupation. A lovely flag, ready for framing and display.
The Good Luck Flag, known as hinomaru yosegaki in the Japanese language, was a traditional gift for Japanese servicemen deployed during the military campaigns of the Empire of Japan, though most notably during World War II. The flag given to a soldier was a national flag signed by friends and family, often with short messages wishing the soldier victory, safety, and good luck.
The Japanese call their country's flag hinomaru, which translates literally to "sun-round", referencing the red circle on a white field. When the hinomaru was signed, the Japanese characters were usually written vertically, and radiated outward from the edge of the red circle. This practice is referenced in the second term, yosegaki, meaning "sideways-writing". The phrase hinomaru-yosegaki can be interpreted as "To write sideways around the red sun", describing the appearance of the signed flag.
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