Original Japanese WWII Rising Sun Army War Cloth Flag (41" x 32") French Holster 1st grade (I

1st grade (I

Robert Servatius

is complete with puggaree wrappings is dated 1942

with most of the paint intact

The canton of the flag contains the imperial state colors and the Prussian Eisernes Kreuz (Iron Cross)

Original Japanese WWII Rising Sun Army War Cloth Flag (41" x 32") French Holster 1st grade (IOriginal 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