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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]
Like many folk songs, "The House of the Rising Sun" is of uncertain authorship. Musicologists say that it is based on the tradition of broadside ballads, and thematically it has some resemblance to the 16th-century ballad "The Unfortunate Rake" (also cited as source material for "St. James Infirmary Blues"), yet there is no evidence suggesting that there is any direct relation. [4]
Both Hinomaru and the Rising Sun Flag (in background) are depicted. The Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) and the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force use the Rising Sun Flag with eight red rays extending outward, called Hachijō-Kyokujitsuki (八条旭日旗). A gold border is situated partially around the edge. [117]
Rising Sun (badge), an Australian Army badge Rising Sun (character), a comic book character and Japanese superhero from DC Comics Rising Sun (sculpture), a work by Adolph Alexander Weinman for the 1915 international exposition of San Francisco
Khepri was a solar deity and thus connected to the rising sun and the mythical creation of the world. [3] The god and the scarab beetle represented creation and rebirth. [ 3 ] [ 12 ] There was no cult devoted to Khepri, as he was seen as a manifestation of the more prominent solar deity Ra .
The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945 is a nonfiction history book by John Toland, published by Random House in 1970. [1] It won the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. [2]
Rising Sun (ライジングサン, Raijingu San) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Satoshi Fujiwara. It was serialized in Futabasha's seinen manga magazine Manga Action from February 2012 to March 2018. A sequel manga, titled Rising Sun R, began serialization in the same magazine in September 2018.
The flag of Kiribati (buraki ni Kiribati) is red in the upper half with a gold frigatebird (Fregata minor, in Gilbertese: te eitei) flying over a gold rising sun (otintaai), and the lower half is blue with three horizontal wavy white stripes to represent the ocean and the three archipelagoes (Gilbert, Phoenix and Line Islands).