About a couple of months ago a fellow collector I know got a good luck flag off Ebay , he was selling it earlier in the year then decided to keep it now looking to sell it again for extra cash for the holidays I guess. The flag does look good to me but the issue that scares me about it is he told it was signed by a general Jiro Tamon. Not sure how common a flag like this is, or if this is even real now. Would like to get some advice. Found the original Ebay link as well. http://www.ebay.com/itm/JAPANESE-WW2...p2047675.l2557
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I won't spend time on this flag except to say the signature begins with "toku" 徳, and is not Tamon Jirō 多門 二郎.
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Thanks. Do you think that it is at least real but just wrongly translated?Comment
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Hi Sean-
Thanks for posting this flag for review. The first thing I notice is that the flag is upside down/switched around. As Guy mentions, the flag is not signed by Tamon Jiro, the General in question. Since the flag lacks his signature, the rest of the flag is called into question as well. General's and other high ranking Japanese military personnel were want to sign flags as many of those flags belonged to much lower ranking men. They simply did not mix in terms of their daily lives, and it would have been considered inappropriate to sign a common soldier's flag. That being said, you may/will see flags signed by men listing their ranks as Lt., Capt., Maj., Lt. Col., Col. and similar ranks. You may also encounter flags where someone else has written the name of the General in terms of a flag's presentation, or where the General's signature has been mass copied and the item was then distributed. You might even see various quoted exultations from Generals or Admirals that were copied onto a man's good luck flag as an inspirational reminder. Actual signatures of Generals listed on a Good Luck Flag are rare. The flag in question seems to lack other signatures as well as the General's signature. It therefore strikes me as being made up or contrived. The flag does show wear, however, the inked characters are in very good condition relative to the flag (perhaps added post-war). As to whether the flag is wartime, there are generally no characteristics to indicate a wartime vs. a post-war hinomaru flag. Even some post-war national flags were made during or before the war, found in storage and then used afterward.
MikeBComment
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<sigh> [...SIGH...] "forced" to respond further.
The location on the bottom right of the flag places it in Aichi Prefecture.
千種町元古井寺脇一同
Chikusa-chō, Moto Furui, Terawaki Ichidō
From All of Us from the former Terawaki [a village in Furui] Furui, Chikusa Town.
Apparently the township name was changed, so they refer to it as "the former".
Top large kanji
必勝
Hisshō
Certain Victory
I do not know which direction to read these:
王 King
楽 Fun
道 Path / Road
土 Earth / Ground
--Guy</sigh>Comment
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王道樂土-Use good manner to govern the country ,make it become to land of happiness.Originally posted by GHP View Post
It's old Chinese idiom.In WW2 Japanses use it as slogan for 偽滿洲國Manchukuo。Comment
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