Medieval Europe had a coat of arms as a family symbol, and in the Heian period, the family coat of arms also appeared in Japan. In ancient times, when literacy was not high, the family tattoo was the best symbol of someone's family. As a family that has ruled the kingdom of Peace since ancient times, it is not surprising that the family pattern appears in the op. This article breaks down the family pattern of the Mitsuki family, and talks a little about the meaning of each element and some small stories related to it.
The first is the most eye-catching element in the whole family pattern - the crane maru, which is the most common of the crane patterns.
"Huainanzi" says "Crane Shou Chitose", in Japan, the crane is also a symbol of auspicious longevity. Legend has it that during the Kamakura period, two samurai went to war, and on the eve of the great war, a crane flew into the camp of one of the sides, and this side did win the war, and since then the crane pattern has been considered a memorial to victory. After losing to Ashikaga Yoshinori, Pusheng Hidetsune was cornered, and it is said that a crane also took the flag of Hidetsuru to guide him and help him get out of trouble.
One of the obvious characteristics of the crane maru is that its wings are open and round, which is also different from the common crane pattern and other flying birds.
The element of the nine white circles in the lower part of the crane pill is called The Nine Yao, which is a kind of nine yao pattern.
In the nine obsidian patterns, the large circle in the middle represents the sun, and the eight small circles around it represent the stars. In addition, according to the distance between the surrounding small circle and the center of the large circle, the nine obsidian patterns are also divided into nine yao and send nine yao. The nine obsidian patterns in the light moon family pattern, the eight small circles are very close to the middle large circle, so it is the nine yao.
There is a real history of Oolong about the Nine Obsidian Patterns. On August 15, 1747, the daimyōs gathered in Edo for a monthly worship service. During this period, Hosokawa Echisumasa, the lord of The Fato-Kumamoto Domain, was suddenly stabbed in the back by Itakura Repair Katsu and died the next day, and Itakura Repair Katsu was also ordered to apologize for the crime. Itakura Katsumi usually flew high and angered the Zong family dang main board Kurasado Shou Shengqing, so he was deposed. Resentful, he wanted to kill Shengqing, but he mistakenly killed Zongxiao. The reason for recognizing the wrong person is because itakura's family pattern is nine bar patterns, known as "Itakura Jiuyao", which is somewhat similar to Hosokawa's Jijiuyao, coupled with the backwardness of ancient printing and dyeing technology, Zongxiao was so confused that he was mistakenly killed by the victory of the wrong family pattern. The Hosokawa family, which had lost its owner, therefore changed the name of The Nine Yaos to The Nine Yaos, and the Departure of the Nine Yaos was therefore called the "Hosokawa Nine Yao Patterns". Since then, the folk have believed that the Nine Obsidian Patterns are "distress patterns" and "hard labor patterns", and they are afraid to avoid them.
Above: Ji Jiuyao (Hosokawa's original family pattern)
Medium: Itakura Kuyo
Below: Away from Jiuyao (Hosokawa family pattern after change)
The one that surrounds Tsurumaru and the Nine Obsidian patterns is called the Kikukan, which is a type of wheel pattern.
There's a strange place here — I've counted several times, and the Kikuwa on Zou Island has 22 petals, while the Kishimon's chrysanthemum on the body has 25 petals. It seems that there is no correction in the single line, and I don't know if it is Oda Sensei's intention.
Above: The light moon family pattern on Zou Island. Below: The Light Moon Family Pattern on the back of the Kinemon Gate.
Speaking back to the chrysanthemum wheel (wheel pattern). In order to make efficient use of space, the wheel pattern is often framed with a writer's pattern. The pattern as a silhouette can vary in a variety of ways, especially when used to distinguish between the home and the division. When it comes to kikukan, many people may be associated with the Japanese imperial emblem - sixteen petals eight-fold table chrysanthemum, but in fact, although emperor Toba in the Kamakura period began to use kikuwa for various utensils, there were no strict rules for the use of kikuwa for a long time in Japan, and kikukan was not managed, and the Tokugawa family in the Edo period used kikukan clover aoi to make a family pattern:
Extended Knowledge: In the first year of Meiji (1868), the sixteen-petal eight-fold chrysanthemum pattern officially became the Heavenly Royal Pattern, and the "eight" here is an imaginary number, taking the meaning of the cascading petals; the petals are facing inward, called "LiJu", and the petals are outward, called "Table Chrysanthemum". In Meiji 2 (February 1869), the Taisei official's notice decree clearly stipulated that the 16-petal chrysanthemum coat of arms could only be used by the imperial family, and the rest of the imperial family was changed to a chrysanthemum coat of arms with 15 or 14 petals or less, followed by Meiji 4, and in Meiji 4, the Taisei official's announcement decree No. 285 explicitly prohibited the use of chrysanthemum coats outside the imperial family. Since then, the order for chrysanthemums has increased and decreased, and now Japan uses the imperial emblem as the national emblem, while the Japanese passport prints a sixteen-petal chrysanthemum pattern. Above: Sixteen petals eight-fold table chrysanthemum pattern (Heavenly Royal Emblem); Bottom: Sixteen petals one heavy chrysanthemum pattern
The outermost element of the Mitsuki family pattern is not the traditional Japanese coat of arms, crispy ink has analyzed this element in detail in his video, I will not repeat it, interested friends can take a look: [One Piece Short Analysis 28] Thousand years ago, the land of Peace • The mystery of the Wave Cross hidden behind it
If, as Crispy Ink said, the combination of these four top forked elements is the Wave Cross (Mill Cross) (about the Mill Cross, see [some trivia] Perona's Mill Cross), then according to its cross attributes, it can be reluctantly classified as the Kuruko pattern in the Japanese coat of arms. "Kuryuko" means "cross" in Portuguese, the cross is a symbol of Christianity, which was first brought to Japan by a Portuguese missionary, Francisco Zabier, and gradually expanded in Japan.
However, it should be noted that there are basically no elements that are exactly consistent with the mill cross in the traditional Japanese family pattern, and only the finely cut bamboo Kuriko has some similarities with the most original mill cross.
Above: Finely sliced bamboo Kuriko
Below: The original mill cross
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