The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Japanese soldier's autographed national flag with a single slogan, 'Long-lasting good fortune in war' and the name of the soldier to whom it was presented, Tani Yoshio from the village of Suida-cho, written in black ink characters. Another phrase gives the information that Tani was born in the year of the dragon (1916) and was 22 years old when the flag was presented to him, in 1938. There are string ties at two corners of the flag from which it was originally suspended in the shrine.
Flag was taken from a shrine at Tokushima on the island of Shikoku. This type of flag was presented to the soldier, by a single individual, on his enlistment and then hung in the shrine when he left for war, where it was an object of veneration and worship.
Japanese soldier's autographed national flag with a single slogan, 'Long-lasting good fortune in war' (the the name of the soldier to whom it was presented is not given), written in black ink characte
Japanese soldier's autographed national flag with a single slogan, 'Long-lasting good fortune in war' and the name of the soldier to whom it was presented, Tamazawa Shinshichi, written in black ink ch
Japanese soldier's autographed national flag bearing a single slogan, 'Long-lasting good fortune in war' his name only, Moriwaki Sukeichi, in black ink characters. A further phrase gives the informat
Japanese soldier's autographed national flag with slogans and signatures written in black ink characters. The flag was presented to Itahara Juni by a teacher (name cannot be deciphered). The signature
Japanese soldier's autographed national flag with signatures and a single slogan, the traditional wish for long-lasting good fortune in war, in black ink characters. Writing on the flag indicates that
Japanese soldier's autographed national flag with slogans and signatures in black ink characters. Presented to Ito Isamu by Fujita Shinjiro, mayor of the village of Toyonishi. Apart from the tradition
