Heraldry from Other Asian Cultures

Academy of Saint Gabriel Report 2346

This report discussed the use of banners and standards in Han culture. The Chinese apparently did not use anything like European inheritable personal arms, nor anything analogous to Japanese kamon.

A Roll of Japanese Armory, by Solveig Throndardottir.

A discussion of pre-modern Japanese heraldry, with 11 pages of illustrations.

Daimyo flags, 15th - 17th century (Japan), by Phil Nelson.

Daimyo flags were used as war banners in 15th to early 17th-century Japan. These flags tended to be more simple in design than mon, to be an aid in easy identification.

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