Help needed with two japanese bring-backs

[Uncle Paul]

Here are two recent flea market finds. The little old lady who sold them to me said that her father brought them back from Guadalcanal. Can someone kindly translate the top line on the Hinomaru Yosegaki? Also, is it odd that the writing is, for the most part, vertical. I read somewhere that the writing usually extends outward from the sun disk. Your help would also be much appreciated if you would translate what is written inside the wreath on the handkerchief. I assume that it is from World War II, but it looks old enough to come from the Russo-Japanese War. Any thoughts that you might have about these two objects will be most welcome.

[ghp95134]

First one is a Christmas 1945 gift to a GI [correction: dated to 2 December 1945 at lower right]; I won't go through the names. Pertinent elements:

平和世界 Heiwa Sekai - World Peace
日本 Nippon - Japan
米国 Beikoku - America
天皇陛下万歳 Tenno Heika Banzai [Long Live the Emperor]
昭和廿年十二月廿五にち Showa 20, December 25

To the left of the meatball:

Showa 20, December 25th
Showa 16 December 8th

真珠湾 Pearl Harbor
マジュロ Majuro
ロイルモア Rirumoa
エルウイタ Eruuita
サイパン Saipan
沖縄 Okinawa
横浜 Yokohama
横須賀 Yokosuka
東京 Tokyo

Bottom left looks like a poem?
鵜流夢
U-ryū yume
Uryuu is a family name; yume means dream. This phrase is repeated 3 times.

Edited to add:
Bottom right
昭和廿年十二月二日
Shōwa nijūnen jūnigatsu futsuka
杉浦 唐壽
Sugiura ??

1945, December 2nd
Sugiura [??? can't figure out if I copied the kanji correctly for the given name]


--Guy

[ghp95134]

Second one is a welcome souvenir

奉迎記念
Hōgei Kinen
Welcome commemoration


--Guy

[Nick Komiya]

The flag may not be what you were hoping for, but the Furoshiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furoshiki is indeed featuring the Mikasa, so it must have been celebrating the Emperor's inspection of the fleet back at the time of the Russo Japanese War.

[Uncle Paul]

Second one is a welcome souvenir

奉迎記念
Hōgei Kinen
Welcome commemoration


--Guy

Guy,
Thank you so much for taking the time and the trouble to comment on the meatball flag. It's good to know that the flag was a Xmas present in 1945 -- an entirely different conclusioin than I would have come to if I was just guessing. Thanks to members like yourself the War Relics Forum has proven to be a serious and respected scholarly resource.
Uncle Paul

[Uncle Paul]

Thanks, Nick, for taking a look at the handkerchief and helping me to forn an opinion about it. It just has that "predates World II" look about it, but without the comments of members like yourself I would be totally in the dark. Is there any possibility that the silk might have been produced fto greet the Great White Fleet?
Uncle Paul

[ghp95134]

... It's good to know that the flag was a Xmas present in 1945

Unka Paul,

I must admit to being a bit confused about your yosegaki flag .... the date on the lower right corner is 2 December 1945 whereas the date on the left of the meatball is 8 December 1940 ~ 25 December 1945; then the various battles are listed from Pearl Harbor (Dec 8 on the Japanese calendar); then, the South Pacific to Tokyo. We can make surmises about the geographic locations mentioned, but they will always be just that: guesses. Maybe the recipient served in those campaigns; or perhaps the gifter was involved -- who knows.

I'm just curious about the 2 December 1945 and 25 December 1945 dates.

Regards,
--Guy

[Nick Komiya]

What I was trying to tell you by the link I provided is that the second item was NOT a handkerchief, but used like a bag. No, it had nothing to do with a foreign fleet visiting Japan, but welcoming a very high ranking person like the emperor. This is clear by the special word used for "greeting".
The poem-like inscription on the post war gift flag seems to indicate it was a present to a Carolyn.

[Uncle Paul]

Thanks, again Nick. Fascinating information. I would be completely in the dark without your help.

[ghp95134]

...the second item was NOT a handkerchief, but used like a bag. ...

Here's what Nick means:


Google images:more.


--Guy