Japanese Flag Purchase

[Jpnmilitaria]

Hello,

Please take a look at some recent acquisitions. I bought three flags and know nothing about them including value. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Bryan

[Jpnmilitaria]

Last Flag

Thanks agian. Bryan

[GHP]

Bryan ........


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Is there anyway you can change your profile name?

It's like me selling Black Americana and calling myself "NigAntiques".


--Guy</sigh>

[Bob Coleman]

Bryan ........


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Is there anyway you can change your profile name?

It's like me selling Black Americana and calling myself "NigAntiques".


--Guy</SIGH>

Well said Guy. Another insensitive individual who does not deserve any assistance with his hinomaru.

[Jpnmilitaria]

Guy

Guy,

I could. I have had the user name for probably 15 years. No one has ever said anything. Was meant to be an abreaviation only. Not derogatory. Someone would have to tell me how to change it. Not sure how that would work. Thanks for asking in a reasonable way. I would like to change it to "JapanMilitaria".

Bryan

[GHP]

Guy,

I could. I have had the user name for probably 15 years. No one has ever said anything. Was meant to be an abreaviation only. Not derogatory. Someone would have to tell me how to change it. Not sure how that would work. Thanks for asking in a reasonable way. I would like to change it to "JapanMilitaria".

Bryan

Hi Bryan, and thanks for trying. An abbreviation I use is Jpz or Jpn.

Thanks,
--Guy

[Bob Coleman]

Guy,

I could. I have had the user name for probably 15 years. No one has ever said anything. Was meant to be an abreaviation only. Not derogatory. Someone would have to tell me how to change it. Not sure how that would work. Thanks for asking in a reasonable way. I would like to change it to "JapanMilitaria".

Bryan

Hi Bryan-
Well done. There is apinned thread in this section regarding that: http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=217287
Best regards,
Bob

[GHP]

Thanks agian. Bryan

At first this flag did not interest me .... then I first noticed a master sergeant ranking....


From right margin to left:
昭和十三年六月
Shōwa 13th year [1938], June

野砲兵＊部隊＊＊
Yahōhei * Butai **
Field Artillery * Corps/group ** [I can't make out the kanji substituted with *]

野砲軍曹佐川良一君
Yahō Gunsō Sagawa Ryōichi [or Yoshikazu] -kun
Field Artillery Sergeant Major Sagawa Ryōichi [or Yoshikazu]
君 ~kun is the familiar of "san" or "sama" [mr., sir] and shows that he was either a subordinate, or a peer of other NCOs who thought well of him. This flag was given to him.

Family names are pretty to read ... the given names are difficult because of the many different sounds that can be given to the same kanji.

皇成発場
Kousei Hatsujou
Imperial Visit Place of Arrival
There might be a cleaner way of saying this, perhaps "Imperial Visit" is enough?
皇= Emperor; 成 = royal visit; 発場= arrival location

SUN DISK

武運長久
Bu'un Chōkyū
Good luck in the fortunes of war

野砲射撃學校
Field Artillery Gunnery School
射撃術***
Gunnery Techniques ***

陸軍中尉勝沼亘
Rikugun Chū'i Katsunuma Wataru
Army lieutenant Katsunuma Wataru


--Guy

[GHP]

Middle flag with writing on the sun orb:

出征畑野良助君
Shussei Hatano Ryōsuke-kun
Deployment/Enlistment of Mr. Hatano Ryōsuke


武運長久
Bu'un Chōkyū
Good Luck in the Fortunes of war. This is also written on the right margin.

It looks like the balance of writing are the names of well-wishers.


--Guy

[chen]

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[Jpnmilitaria]

User Name

I have requested assistance in changing by user name. Lets see how long it takes. Sent an email to the info address.

Bryan

[chen]

1. Imperial- usually abbr. means Japanese Imperial Army
2. All
3. Spread
4. Out

So the total meaning ,if read together, means" Spread all out the Spirit of Japanese Imperial Army "

[Jpnmilitaria]

Great Translation Info.

Great translations. Going through them now. Thanks, Bryan

[chen]

[GHP]

1. Imperial- usually abbr. means Japanese Imperial Army
2. All
3. Spread
4. Out

So the total meaning ,if read together, means" Spread all out the Spirit of Japanese Imperial Army "

Hello Mr. Chen, and thank you. I think there might be some difference in understanding this phrase, and perhaps we need a native Japanese to confirm what you wrote. "Imperial All Spread Out" can be one form of the kanji.

In the meantime, here is my understanding:

皇成発場
Kōsei Hatsujō
Imperial Visit Place of Arrival
There might be a cleaner way of saying this, perhaps "Imperial Visit" is enough?

• 皇 (hō, ō) Emperor, as in 天皇; can also be an abbreviation for "Imperial [Army]" ... but that is normally written as 皇軍 kōgun
• 成 (nari, sei) visit; although this is the 5th definition, it is the only one where 成 is the main kanji:

お成り; 御成り; 御成 【o-nari】 (n) going out (of a nobleman, etc.); visiting [ghp: "O" means honorable]

Alone, it means "to become", elapse, grow, turn in to. This is the kanji version of "~naru" なる, a common word meaning "become/becomes/became" (e.g., I became an officer is: 将校になりました; alternately as 将校に成りました).

• 発場= arrival location. This is a set pair and the dictionary definition:

発場 【hatsu jō】 (n) arrival; place of arrival

※GRAMMAR POLICE REPORT
Regarding the important diacritical marks used above the "o" and "u" vowels (ō and ū) when converting kanji or kana into romaji (Latin letters). The diacritical mark does *not* make it a long vowel as taught in US/UK grammar school. Japanese diacritical marks extend the vowel sound. In this case 皇 is written with TWO hiragana as ほう. When transcribed into Western letters, each kana is broken down as Ho and O. Today ほう would be rendered either as hou or hō, but NOT "ho". Pre-1960s (and even sometimes today) you will see it as "hoo" -- but to native English speakers that would sound like "who".
With that said ... it is too cumbersome for most people to write 柔道道場 correctly as jūdō dōjō; we just write judo dojo.



Regards,
--Guy