Hinomaru no Yosegaki, One of Two

[Bobby]

Hello: Found two Hinomaru no Yosegaki. Picture of the first one attached. I can get better pictures next week. I would appreciate feedback on authenticity and anything that would make it of interest, beyond signatures.

I note that the large characters on the right hand side appear to translate to the frequently found slogan "continued luck in the fortunes of war". However, I cannot identify the first large character in the upper right hand side. Is it "Ki"?

Thank you for any feedback. I will separately post the other flag.

[Nick Komiya]

Presented to Torao Okada. Otherwise only names and nothing of interest.

[Bobby]

Thank you Nick. Is the first large character in the upper right "Ki"? It does not appear to my uneducated eye to be the character that I typically see in this slogan.

[Nick Komiya]

What everyone misreads as "Ki"( an educated Japanese will never read it as such), is correctly read "Inoru". What you see is only an earlier complicated form of that.

[ghp95134]

....What you see is only an earlier complicated form of that.

禱 simplified today as 祷 is also pronounced inoru as is 祈.

— Guy