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Civil and state flag and ensign of Japan. Flag ratio: 2:3. This flag was designated by Proclamation No. 127, 1999. The sun-disc is perfectly centered and is a brighter shade of red. 27 February 1870 – 12 August 1999: Civil and state flag and ensign of the Empire of Japan, and the Japanese state. Flag ratio: 7:10.
The coat of arms of the Nguyễn dynasty (Vietnamese: Quốc huy triều Nguyễn; Hán-Nôm: 國徽朝阮), officially the national coat of arms of Đại Nam (Vietnamese: Quốc huy Đại Nam; Hán-Nôm: 國徽大南), was the national coat of arms of the Nguyễn dynasty adopted during the reign of the Thành Thái Emperor to be used when accepting diplomatic missions and foreign ...
Flag of Empire of Japan. Flag ratio: 7:10. Disc is shifted 1% towards the hoist (left). 1945–1960: Flag of Bình Xuyên. A dark red banner and a small blue banner inside, a small yellow star centered on a blue banner (2:3). Influences: 1947: Cờ Quẻ Càn [k] A yellow field with three red stripes. The stripes formed the Quẻ Càn, or Qian ...
The form Việt Nam (越南) is first recorded in the 16th-century oracular poem Sấm Trạng Trình. The name has also been found on 12 steles carved in the 16th and 17th centuries, including one at Bao Lam Pagoda in Hải Phòng that dates to 1558. [14] In 1802, Nguyễn Phúc Ánh (who later became Emperor Gia Long) established the Nguyễn ...
The word "Nam" no longer implies Southern Việt, but rather that Vietnam is "the South" in contrast to China, "the North". [17] This sentiment had already been in the poem "Nam quốc sơn hà" (1077)'s first line: 南國山河南帝居 Nam quốc sơn hà Nam đế cư "The Southern country's mountains and rivers the Southern Emperor inhabits ...
The Hinomaru was decreed the merchant flag of Japan in 1870 and was the legal national flag from 1870 to 1885, making it the first national flag Japan adopted. [22] [23] While the idea of national symbols was strange to the Japanese, the Meiji Government needed them to communicate with the outside world.
Each modern Japanese prefecture has a unique flag, most often a bicolour geometric highly stylised design, often incorporating the characters of the Japanese writing system and resembling minimalistic company logos. [1] The heraldic badges worn by warriors in medieval Japan were forerunners of the modern emblems used in the prefectural flags. [2]
This was a group of the northern branch of the Vietnam Restoration Allied Society (Việt Nam Phục quốc Đồng minh Hội), the southern branch was the pro-Japanese branch of Nationalist Party of Greater Vietnam, and associated with pro-Japanese groups in the Daiviet National League (Đại Việt Quốc gia Liên minh). [4] [5]