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<blockquote data-quote="Perplexed" data-source="post: 1004062" data-attributes="member: 7157"><p>Not quite. Take a closer look at the mum - it's been defaced by a pair of slashes, made either by a knife or the edge of a file. A lot of mums were defaced this way when grinding equipment was not available. Also, the presence of an intact mum, while a good indicator of a war trophy, isn't definitive of that status. A fair number of post-war Arisaka acquisitions slipped through the net with intact mums, usually because of rear echelon "connections" or higher rank.</p><p></p><p>The mums were defaced because the Japanese felt it was an insult to their Emperor for one of his firearms to fall intact into the hands of the enemy, since the chrysanthemum was a symbol of his divinity. Once the war ended, General MacArthur, wishing to keep the peace during the Allied occupation of Japan, acceded to the Emperor's request for the wholesale defacing of the mums on all Japanese arms. It really wasn't meant to distinguish between wartime and post-war trophies - it was simply a face-saving measure on the part of the Japanese.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Perplexed, post: 1004062, member: 7157"] Not quite. Take a closer look at the mum - it's been defaced by a pair of slashes, made either by a knife or the edge of a file. A lot of mums were defaced this way when grinding equipment was not available. Also, the presence of an intact mum, while a good indicator of a war trophy, isn't definitive of that status. A fair number of post-war Arisaka acquisitions slipped through the net with intact mums, usually because of rear echelon "connections" or higher rank. The mums were defaced because the Japanese felt it was an insult to their Emperor for one of his firearms to fall intact into the hands of the enemy, since the chrysanthemum was a symbol of his divinity. Once the war ended, General MacArthur, wishing to keep the peace during the Allied occupation of Japan, acceded to the Emperor's request for the wholesale defacing of the mums on all Japanese arms. It really wasn't meant to distinguish between wartime and post-war trophies - it was simply a face-saving measure on the part of the Japanese. [/QUOTE]
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