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    Help with 3 Japanese "Good Luck" Flags

    Other than the phots being upside down and/or backwards (which makes comparison difficult) tases look good to me. First one has a US homefront send home dedication on it:
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    Second one has lots of writing but only one upside down photo:
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      #3
      Third, but not least . . . has quite an interesting kanji pattern on it . . . Domo Arigato gozai masu!
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        #4
        All three are nice flags. I had time to only translate the first one.
        忠勇殺敵
        Loyalty & Bravery Kill the Enemy

        為木村源太郎君
        Tame Kimura Gentarō Kun
        For Mr. Kimura Gentarō

        若林合名会社
        Wakabayashi Gōmeigaisho
        Wakabayashi Unlimited Partnership Company

        Seal. I am not confident about the last two kanji -- the image is very fuzzy, but it looks like Daitō [Great Eastern]; I've never seen anything on a seal after "之印".
        若林合 "Wakabayashi Go-"
        名会社 "Mei Gaisha"
        之印大東 "No In Daitō"

        -- Guy

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          #5
          Wow! Thanks Guy!

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            #6
            Originally posted by Mauser HSc View Post
            Second one has lots of writing but only one upside down photo:

            Here are the slogans I can find ... most of the others are names; some are slogans that are too hard for me to make out.

            12:00 o'clock:
            祈武運長久
            Pray for continued luck in the fortunes of war

            Top right corner
            體富り
            篠栗線浦

            Enrich your body
            Sasagura [train] Line Bay {??? maybe a group of friends from that area?}

            Right margin
            田代 福沢
            Tashiro [&] Fukuzawa (two surnames).


            2:00 o'clock:
            必勝
            Hisshou
            Certain Victory!

            3:00 o'clock: Mid-right
            萬古放光
            Banko Hōkō
            Timelessness Radiates
            Perpetuity Radiates

            古川 均
            Furukawa Hitoshi [written by]

            4:00 o'clock:
            至誠
            Sincerity

            神武心勝

            Jinmu Shinkatsu

            The Spirit of Jinmu Conquers [Jinmu was the 1st emperor of Japan]


            4:00 o'clock:
            憤激
            fungeki
            Indignation


            5:00 o'clock:
            只頑張
            Tada Ganbaru
            Just hang in there!


            8:00 o'clock:
            奉公
            Messhi Houkou
            Destroy Self and Serve [i.e., selfless devotion]
            Writer used the wrong kanji -- should be
            奉公


            8:30

            Inoru
            Prayer

            9:00 o'clock:

            Chu
            Loyalty


            10:00 o'clock:
            一撃
            Ichigeki
            One Strike


            坂本重徳
            Sakamoto Shigenori [name]


            12:00 o'clock:
            祈武運長久
            Pray for continued luck in the fortunes of war
            Last edited by GHP; 03-23-2020, 10:31 PM.

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              #7
              Originally posted by Mauser HSc View Post
              Third, but not least . . . has quite an interesting kanji pattern on it . . . Domo Arigato gozai masu!
              祈武運長久
              Inori Bu'un Chokyu
              Prayers for continued luck in the fortunes of war

              北島進君
              Kitajima Susumu kun
              Mr. Kitajima Susumu

              The rest are names; I'm not certain about that first one ... it looks more like a slogan (because of the ...つ "tsu") but I cannot make out the first kanji:
              *つ治
              That last kanji can do with "healing" from sickness; also a component to politics 政治; mostly seen by *us* as Emperor Meiji's name 明治

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                #8
                Three nice flags! I Love your translations Guy

                PG-

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Paul G View Post
                  Three nice flags! I Love your translations Guy

                  PG-
                  Thanks Paul

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Paul G View Post
                    Three nice flags! I Love your translations Guy
                    Same here . . . many thanks!

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