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A map of the territories of the Sengoku daimyo around the first year of the Genki era (1570 AD). Daimyo (大名, daimyō, Japanese pronunciation: ⓘ) were powerful Japanese magnates, [1] feudal lords [2] who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast hereditary land holdings.
By the mid-16th century, flags and banners were seen in greater numbers than ever before, and in an unprecedented variety of styles, sizes, shapes and colors. Where once only higher-ranking samurai and commanders had standards (flags), now lower-ranking warriors wore flags to denote their unit or division, along with their clan or lord.
A bicolour flag consisting of three bands; white, black, and white. 1668–1869: Flag used by the Satsuma army during the Boshin War: A horizontal bicolour of red and white. 1905–1910: Flag of the Resident General of Korea. A blue ensign with the Flag of Japan in the canton. 1945–1952: Civil and naval ensign during the occupation of Japan.
For other pages from this book see the collection of Japanese heraldry images or collection of Uma-Jirushi images. Uma-jirushi (馬印, horse insignia) were massive flags used in feudal Japan to identify a daimyō or equally important military commander on the field of battle.
Naval ensign of Japan. 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 ...
Ukita Hideie (Japanese: 宇喜多 秀家) was the daimyō of Bizen and Mimasaka Provinces (modern Okayama Prefecture). He was a military commander and feudal lord during the Azuchi-Momoyama period. Also referred to as Hachirō (八郎). At the age of 26, Ukita was elected to be one of the five elders when he returned from the Imjin war, also ...
The birth of the fudai daimyō class began as Tokugawa Ieyasu (徳川家康) rose to power in Japan in the 16th century. Ieyasu's han (domains) increased as he gained prominence, and as his domains increased, he began to hand out landholdings to his vassals, so that one by one, many of them became daimyōs, the powerful feudal lords of the samurai warrior noble class.
Given the great variety in Japanese armour, sashimono were used to provide a kind of "uniform" to armies. Sashimono typically came in either square or short rectangular forms, although many variations existed. A variation that is often bigger and coloured is the uma-jirushi, which were large, personalized, sashimono-like flags worn by commanders.