In Japan, there are these family crest things. The dagger is supposed to stand for something. What was it?
2007-02-06 11:20:40 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Asia Pacific ➔ Japan
Design of each family crest shows the family itself. The motif can be dagger, flower, plant, animal, or whatever but motif does not meaning anything. For ex. three leaves of hollyhock design is a crest for Tokugawa Family and hollyhock does not stand for anything. It is just hollyhock.
2007-02-06 17:55:40 · answer #1 · answered by Tash 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
each family has a family crest, it doest really mean anything now days, but they have them on the family shrine.
I lived in Hokkaido and people have a family crest BUT Hokkaido was settled MUCH later than the rest of Japan (last place in fact) and so everyone from Hokkaido is from another prefecture in Japan, sometimes they brought along the family crest and traditions, sometimes they didn't.
Maybe one you saw had a dagger, they have millions of them, each household name has a different one. One time a grampa showed us a book of all the family crest designs. It was a THICK THICK book!!!
2007-02-07 19:05:57 · answer #2 · answered by twikfat 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't know much about it but here's a reference you can try investigating. It's got links and what not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mon_%28badge%29
Also the guy above me is correct as far as I know.
Why is it that people always need to thumbs down the person with the correct answer? (No I'm not accusing you of thumbing him down. It's probably the trolls) I really don't get why they get a kick out of doing that. Even if they're somewhat correct, it's still not a thumbs down. But this is just me and my opinion talking here.
But watch, someone will thumb me down as well for saying this. Hahahaha
2007-02-07 16:18:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm pretty certain it stands for a dagger
2007-02-06 19:23:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋