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The Rising Sun Flag ( Japanese: 旭日 旗, Hepburn: Kyokujitsu-ki) is a Japanese flag that consists of a red disc and sixteen red rays emanating from the disc. [ 1] Like the Japanese national flag, the Rising Sun Flag symbolizes the Sun. The flag was originally used by feudal warlords in Japan during the Edo period (1603–1868 CE). [ 2]
Flag of Japan. The national flag of Japan is a rectangular white banner with a crimson-red circle at its center. The flag is officially called the Nisshōki ( 日章旗, 'flag of the sun') but is more commonly known in Japan as the Hinomaru ( 日の丸, 'Ball of the sun'). It embodies the country's sobriquet: the Land of the Rising Sun .
Sunrise seen over the Atlantic Ocean through cirrus clouds on the Jersey Shore at Spring Lake, New Jersey, U.S. Sunrise (or sunup) is the moment when the upper rim of the Sun appears on the horizon in the morning. [ 1 ] The term can also refer to the entire process of the solar disk crossing the horizon.
A horizontal triband of black, red, and green; charged with a red rising sun with 31 rays centred on the black stripe. President Peter Mutharika with flag. The flag of Malawi ( Chichewa: mbendera ya Malaŵi) was officially adopted on 6 July 1964 when the colony of Nyasaland became independent from British rule and renamed itself Malawi.
Communist symbolism represents a variety of themes, including revolution, the proletariat, the peasantry, agriculture, or international solidarity. The red flag, the hammer and sickle and the red star or variations thereof are some of the symbols adopted by communist movements, governments, and parties worldwide.
Designed by. Miroslav Grčev. The flag of North Macedonia ( Macedonian: Знаме на Северна Македонија, romanized : Zname na Severna Makedonija) depicts a stylized yellow sun on a red field, with eight broadening rays extending from the center to the edge of the field. It was created by Miroslav Grčev and was adopted on 5 ...
Amun, creator deity sometimes identified as a Sun god. Aten, god of the Sun, the visible disc of the Sun. Atum, the "finisher of the world" who represents the Sun as it sets. Bast, cat goddess associated with the Sun. Hathor, mother of Horus and Ra and goddess of the Sun. Horus, god of the sky whose right eye was considered to be the Sun and ...
The Vergina Sun (also known as the Star of Vergina, Macedonian Star, or Argead Star) is a rayed solar symbol appearing in ancient Greek art from the 6th to 2nd centuries BC. The Vergina Sun appears in art variously with sixteen, twelve, or eight triangular rays. Bianchini's planisphere, produced in the 2nd century, [ 5 ] has a circlet with rays ...