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J001458 JAPANESE PATRIOTIC "OFF TO WAR" BANNER. Send-off parades were organized for soldiers on their way to the local railway station by community organizations, with the participants carrying banners ("nobori"), suspended from vertical poles, each with the name of a specific recruit to them. This example is an approximately 16" x 54" white silk banner, to the top of which has been printed a cherry blossom encircled by a wreath of green laurels with small, red berries, to whose base is a red bow, and to either side of which proceed dual, blue zig-zags. Beneath that are two crossed flags, the war flag to the right and the national flag to the left, with dark blue tassels joining them. The cherry blossom and the circular finials to each flag pole evidently were colored with a dye which eventually ate through the fabric, as there are only negative spaces there now. Beneath the flags is a handwritten column of six, large black kanji characters, the uppermost being that for "congratulations" or "celebrate," after which are those which undoubtedly include the name of the recruit, with the last character being that for "mister." A column of five smaller characters, which may include the donor’s name (often the subject’s employer), is handwritten to the upper right of the larger ones, and two rows of similar characters are to the base of the banner. The bottom edge of the banner is pointed, and has orange fringe along it. Its edges and top are bordered in patterned, purple silk, with the top folded over and sewn to create a tunnel loop, through which a horizontal wooden bar is passed. Either end of the bar is capped in heavily surface spotted, nickel-silver plated metal. Tied around each of these caps is a twisted orange suspension cord with orange tassels to either of its ends. The banner is typically, lightly age soiled and wrinkled throughout.

GRADE ***3/4                PRICE $179.00

 

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