Very Rare Antique Japanese Military Poem Hinomaru Helmet Ishii Butai Army Sake Cup
Very Rare Antique Japanese Military Poem Hinomaru Helmet Ishii Butai Army Sake Cup

Very Rare Antique Japanese Military Poem Hinomaru Helmet Ishii Butai Army Sake Cup

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This is an antique Japanese military sake cup, decorated with a hinomaru sun and a poem about returning home after finishing one's duties, and the words are "Return Commemoration" "War Victory" and "Ishii Butai" or Ishii Unit. The exterior of the cup is in the shape of a helmet with a pair of rifles as the base. Ishii Butai is most likely a reference to the notorious Unit 731 - which was commonly known as the Ishii unit because of its head, Dr. Ishii Shiro, who conducted various biological and chemical experiments on innocent Chinese civilians but who was given immunity for war crime convictions after the war to work for the US military.

Condition: Excellent - very light fading of the gold

Size: 2" across

Very Rare Antique Japanese Military Poem Hinomaru Helmet Ishii Butai Army Sake Cup
Very Rare Antique Japanese Military Poem Hinomaru Helmet Ishii Butai Army Sake Cup