Audsley, George Ashdown, 1838-1925, author, Greve, W. (Lithographer), printer, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, publisher, Imprimerie Lemercier et cie, printer · leaf 418
been adopted as cognizances, but their use was by no means common at any time. Mr. M°Clatchie remarks :—‘ The celestial objects worn as SOMA BADGE. FROM A JAPANESE COLOURED PRINT. badges are the sun, moon, and supposed representations of stars and clouds; these, however, are very rare. As natural… … flower issuing from a stream of water,—by that of Nakayama, the sun issuing in a like manner,—and again, by that of Midzuno, an omodaka plant similarly depicted. The only example of a mountain in the list of daimids is the badge of a small daimid named Aoki Gengord, formerly lord of the small…
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