Original Japanese WWII Service Used Cloth Rising Sun Army War Flag - 29" x 32" Martini-Henry Bayonets Below this it reads Sonderklasse

Below this it reads Sonderklasse (Special Class)

The pattern was not an official Army approved pattern but it so closely resembled the IKE jacket that it was  accepted in the ETO during the war

It is very decorative but was never an item of great quality

Jacket is named in the interior armpit ink stamped D

ready for use or WW1 Display

Original Japanese WWII Service Used Cloth Rising Sun Army War Flag - 29" x 32" Martini-Henry Bayonets Below this it reads SonderklasseOriginal Item: Only One Available. The Rising Sun Flag ( Kyokujitsu ki) design was originally used by feudal warlords in Japan during the Edo period. On May 15, 1870, as a policy of the Meiji government, it was adopted as the war flag of the Imperial Japanese Army, and on October 7, 1889, it was adopted as the naval ensign of the Imperial Japanese Navy (Naval flags have the sun off center to the left). With the sun in the center, this is a flag of the