Original Japanese WWII Cloth Rising Sun Army War Flag - 27" x 33" British Military Maps a few differences with the

a few differences with the other models emerge

The leaf reaches all the way back to the end of the receiver

Rim number is correct as confirmed by documentation

though it is somewhat dull

The regiment was not fundamentally affected by the Cardwell Reforms of the 1870s

Original Japanese WWII Cloth Rising Sun Army War Flag - 27" x 33" British Military Maps a few differences with theOriginal Item: Only One Available. The Rising Sun Flag ( Kyokujitsu ki) design was originally used by feudal warlords in Japan during the Edo period. On May 15, 1870, as a policy of the Meiji government, it was adopted as the war flag of the Imperial Japanese Army, and on October 7, 1889, it was adopted as the naval ensign of the Imperial Japanese Navy (Naval flags have the sun off center to the left). With the sun in the center, this is a flag of the