Flag translation help

[Gkouras1010]

Hello Dear friends , Thank you for letting me join. I am a Military Collector in Greece and bought a Good Luck Flag

from a friend in NY. Could one of the members here translate the Flag for me ? I would love to learn what it says and the Soldier's name or any information. Thank you

 

[Gkouras1010]

 

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[Majestic]

On the left side in large letters, vertically
祈武運長久 Pray for everlasting luck in battle
贈 赤澤源一囗君 To Akasawa Gen'ichi (There is some kanji after the name and just before an honorific, but I can't make it out).

The rest are names.

For some reason your flag is displaying in a mirrored form. It should look like this.

 

[Gkouras1010]

On the left side in large letters, vertically
祈武運長久 Pray for everlasting luck in battle
贈 赤澤源一囗君 To Akasawa Gen'ichi (There is some kanji after the name and just before an honorific, but I can't make it out).

The rest are names.

For some reason your flag is displaying in a mirrored form. It should look like this.

Big thank you for your time and help dear friend!

 

[Kilroy]

On the left side in large letters, vertically
祈武運長久 Pray for everlasting luck in battle
贈 赤澤源一囗君 To Akasawa Gen'ichi (There is some kanji after the name and just before an honorific, but I can't make it out).

The rest are names.

For some reason your flag is displaying in a mirrored form. It should look like this.

Majestic , THANK YOU so so much for helping Thanasi...he's a very good friend of mine. I told Thanasi about this Forum and suggested he join and post the Flag here. I sold this Flag to Thanasi ..it came from another old friend's collection (Ron) who passed away and I helped the Widow sell of his collection. Ron had 2 Flags , I kept one and mailed this one to Thanasi and I sent him a copy of the Good Luck Flag Book as a Christmas gift. I introduced Thanasi to the widow and he paid her directly. I had no issue with the Flag , it looked period and was in nice shape. But when Thanasi posted it on a Facebook page ..the 15 year old "experts" started saying it was Chinese writing and was a fake . ...typical. But since I can not translate it , I suggested Thanasi post it here to find out for sure and his own peace of mind. I have no doubt it's original , it is not Chinese and not a SeaBee fake and I really appreciate your help translating it for him and proving the Facebook experts wrong. Just to clarify ..the Soldier's name is Akasawa ? Does it say which Unit he belonged to or any mention of Dates or other interesting comments ? As you can imagine , These Flags are VERY hard to find in Greece and I am so glad Thanasi has it now.

 

[Gkouras1010]

Majestic , THANK YOU so so much for helping Thanasi...he's a very good friend of mine. I told Thanasi about this Forum and suggested he join and post the Flag here. I sold this Flag to Thanasi ..it came from another old friend's collection (Ron) who passed away and I helped the Widow sell of his collection. Ron had 2 Flags , I kept one and mailed this one to Thanasi and I sent him a copy of the Good Luck Flag Book as a Christmas gift. I introduced Thanasi to the widow and he paid her directly. I had no issue with the Flag , it looked period and was in nice shape. But when Thanasi posted it on a Facebook page ..the 15 year old "experts" started saying it was Chinese writing and was a fake . ...typical. But since I can not translate it , I suggested Thanasi post it here to find out for sure and his own peace of mind. I have no doubt it's original , it is not Chinese and not a SeaBee fake and I really appreciate your help translating it for him and proving the Facebook experts wrong. Just to clarify ..the Soldier's name is Akasawa ? Does it say which Unit he belonged to or any mention of Dates or other interesting comments ? As you can imagine , These Flags are VERY hard to find in Greece and I am so glad Thanasi has it now.

Big thanks you brother

 

[Majestic]

No, I couldn't find any other noteworthy items on the flag. Just the name of the recipient and the good luck message. The rest are names. The flag looks OK to me.

I don't know why anyone would claim it is a fake. The writing is typical, there are no suspicious words or phrases, the names on the flag are typical Japanese names. It looks to be a genuine flag.

We have many people send in fake flags to this site. The hallmarks of a fake flag are; unusual writing, unusual (non-Japanese) names, or names that use kanji that aren't found in Japan. Other obvious signs of a fake flag are big, historical names (like Tōjō Hideki), or writing that looks like it was all done by a single person.

This flag has none of those "problems". It would be even nicer if there were a date or a location written on the flag, but not every flag was written these details on it. I think it looks OK. Note the name can be read as either Akasawa, or Akazawa (or possibly even Sekizawa).

 

[Gkouras1010]

Thank you dear sir for your help .