Sunday 24 April 2016

By Lora James


Recorded Japanese history begins in approximately A.D. 400, when the Yamato clan, eventually based in Kyoto, managed to gain control of other family groups in central and western Japan. Contact with Korea introduced Buddhism to Japan at about this time.

According to mythology, Japan's ancient history is tied to the sun goddess, Amaterasu, who sent one of her descendants to the island of Kyushu to unify the people. Legend gives way to the fact in the fourth century when the country was unified under the Yamato Dynasty, who established a court in Nara.

At the same time, warrior clans were rising to prominence as a distinct class known as samurai. In 1192, the Minamoto clan set up a military government under their leader, Yoritomo. He was designated shogun (military dictator). For the following 700 years, shoguns from a succession of clans ruled in Japan, while the imperial court existed in relative obscurity.

The Hinomaru, Japanese flag, was made official in 1870 as a merchant flag, becoming the first national flag adopted in Japan from 1870 to 1885, when the flag became the de facto flag but not the legal flag. The flag's use was heavily restricted during Japan's occupation after World War II until 1947 when the restrictions began to be lifted. In 1999, a law was passed to make the Hinomaru Japan's official national flag.

The Japanese national flag was designated by their constitution on August 13, 1999. The brief history of the flag has its origin in two edicts of the Daij?-kan in the early Meiji Era. The Daij?-kan is a government organization who decreed two proclamations stating that the sun-disc flag is to be used as a flag for merchant ships and the flag used by the navy.

In the years of American control of Japan, the usage of the sun-circle banner was compelled and later the confinements were facilitated. In early Japanese history, the image of Hinomaru was used by daimyos and samurais as a part of their standards. Amid Meiji Restoration, the Hinomaru, and the Rising Sun Ensign of the Imperial Japanese Navy was the key seals of the Japanese realm. The Flag Company Inc specialized in flag designs offered a special edition of decals and flags to memorize the history of Japanese Flag for the future.




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