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WW2 Sake Cup

Jags1

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2 Oct 2018
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I'm hoping someone can help me with interpreting the writings on this WW2 sake cup. Not exactly sure what it represents but it appears to be navy aviation.
Many thanks!!!
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All of the writing is read from right to left.

The three phrases appearing on the cup are:
海軍
kaigun
navy

昭和拾九年
Showa juukyu nen
the year Showa 19 (i.e., 1944)

神風特別攻撃隊
Shinpuu Tokubetsu Kougekitai
"Divine Wind" Special Attack Unit

The characters 神風 can also be read as Kamikaze.
 
But, this airplane has three propellers and no wires are wound on its wings.
Hmm, are you sure? --a variant was the A5M (or A5M4), which seems a lot like the sake cup drawing. It has a 3-bladed prop, and in outline it seems really close.

Also, I would give some 'artistic license' to the artist who painted the sake cup, They were not trying for an exact reproduction, but instead looking for it to convey feeling. (adding the wires from mid-wing to fuselage besides also getting the prop wrong)
 
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