Show your Japanese cups

[rra227]

Thanks! Rich A. in Pa.

[rra227]

Got this stuff. The one tray with horses must be for a mounted unit. Would someone please translate the trays,bottle and cups for me? Thanks,Rich A. in Pa.

[ghp95134]

Large tray
騎第二四 金澤 記念
24th Cavalry Kanazawa Commemoration

Small tray
戦捷記念
Commemoration of Winning the War


Sake warmer
輜重兵 Transportation Corps
第十大隊 10th Battalion
退営記念 Discharge Commemoration
原 Hara [soldier's surname]
弘山 Hiroyama [maker's mark]

biplane cup:
第六大隊 6th Battalion
退営記念 Discharge Commemoration
寺岡清XX Terada Kiyoshi -- I don't understand the XX -- it might be a kanji I'm not understanding .....

Green cup
Above star:
歩十 10th Infantry
Below:
満州事変 Manchurian Incident
凱旋記念 Victorious Return Commemoration

人武士
[for] Man, the Samurai.
From the proverb 花は桜木人は武士 "The [best] flower is the cherry blossom; the [best] man is the warrior".
wiki about the proverb.

-- Guy

[Ryoyo]

Some metal sake cups, seem to be Russo-Japanese War era

Golden Kite

[Nick Komiya]

The first one with the Golden Kite is from the Sino-Japanese War. The one from the Russo-Japanese War was given out by 御井町尚武会, a martial arts club in Mi-I-Machi, Kurume City, Fukuoka Prefecture.

[fukuoka]

If I am not mistaken, the 18th Division was in Kurume, in Mi-i Machi. Strangely coincidental, but I currently work (for 12 years now) at Kurume University Mi-i Campus and the adjacent Kurume Fusetsu High School, which was the former site of this division. I haven't seen this specific inscription before, so it is really interesting to have this pop up!

[rra227]

Fantastic cups. Rich A. in Pa.

[TAHD2000]

I have no idea what this whistling sake cup could be. If it is a military or civil cup.
As you can se it has a ballon and pictures of Japan and China on the inside. On the outside there is maps with writing.
The text in the bottom of the cup is blurry so its difficult to get better pictures of that text.

Could someone pleas help me to sort out what it could be? :-)

[Nick Komiya]

The bottom only claims the design is under protection as registration 45863. It makes no mention of the occasion, but the map names Japan, China, Russia, Siberia, England, Germany, France and Italy. Prominence of Siberia on the map probably means from a time after the Siberian Intervention.

[TAHD2000]

Thank you Nick for the help with the translation. :-)
Interesting with Siberia mentioned at the cup.