Good luck flag presented to Japanese soldier Motoki Teruo

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 signatures are possibly those of primary school students as the writing is unformed and childish. The slogans written on the flag are 'Serve your country from the bottom of your heart' and 'Concentrate your mind'. The flag bears the seal of the Shinto Susa 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.

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