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J001758 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 17" x 52 1/2" white silk banner, to the top of which has been printed a red rising sun, beneath which is a five-pointed golden star, to either side of which proceed dual, blue zig-zags. Beneath that, in a darker blue, are the kanji characters for "congratulations" or "celebrate," followed by two other dark blue characters. Beneath these are five large black characters which undoubtedly include the name of the recruit, with the last character being that for "mister." A column of five smaller characters, in dark blue, which may include the donor’s name (often the subject’s employer), is handwritten to the left of the larger ones. The rounded bottom edge of the banner has yellow fringe along it, and either side and the top of the banner is bordered in purple silk. Its top is folded over and sewn to create a tunnel loop, through which a horizontal wooden bar is passed, with the banner nailed to it at either end, and to its center. Very light age soiling and wrinkling is evident throughout.

GRADE ****1/4                PRICE $179.00

 

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