Manchuria Incident Flag

[grimnar]

Just wondering if anyone can offer any insight into this flag.

Cheers.

Ebay # 280784973245

[Papa Nambu]

Don't bother with that one.

[grimnar]

Thanks for that Papa!

[Paul G]

I agree, if you don't own it already.........Leave it be. Its got some Bad kanji if you ask me!


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[grimnar]

Paul,
I placed a bid on it, but thankfully I was outbid. I wasnt sure on it, but I was willing to take a punt on it being related to Manchuria.
Thanks for your imput.

[Papa Nambu]

Original flags are usually written with a brush. Maybe someone might sign with a fountain pen, but at least any large writing will be done with a brush. When you write with a brush, it lays the ink on heavy, and as you write the ink starts to run out and get lighter, then you dip your brush again and keep going. When you use a marker, the ink is pretty much consistent, the lines are mostly about the same size. Even if you use a modern pen brush which is what a lot of Japanese people use today to give their writing the traditional appearance, the ink flow will at least still be fairly consistent.

I didn't bother too much trying to read any of this flag, but what I did read doesn't seem to belong on a WW2 flag. You don't need to be able to read it to see it's not written with a brush.

The red ink writing is a red flag. You see stamps with red ink, rarely writing. I've never seen anything written in red ink on a real yosegaki flag. I've seen them very rarely signed with blood, but blood does not stay that red over time like ink.