Hata-jirushi
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Hata-jirushi (旗印) were the most common of war banners used on the medieval Japanese battlefield.
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The term could be translated to literally mean symbol flag, marker banner or the like. Unlike the later nobori, which were stiffened, these banners were simple streamers attached to a shaft by a horizontal cross-piece.
Hata-jirushi served much the same purpose as the nobori which replaced them, identifying and distinguishing regiments or sections of an army.
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- Turnbull, Stephen (1998). 'The Samurai Sourcebook'. London: Cassell & Co.
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