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Rising Sun

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Etymology

By proprialization from rising Sun, driven by the theme that the Sun is very important in human affairs and that sunrise is an important time of day, both for the advent of daylight and because the rest of the day, with all its potential, lies ahead. The Japanese symbolism reflects that Japan is the easternmost country of East Asia, and the East is the place of the sunrise. The pub names reflect both the general importance of the rising Sun in human affairs and also the heraldic use of the rising Sun as a symbol for royalty, nobles, goodness, and so on.

Definitions

  1. Any of various places

    Any of various places:

  2. Any of many roadhouses or public houses, past or present, in Anglophone countries

    Any of many roadhouses or public houses, past or present, in Anglophone countries; calques exist in other lands and languages as well.

    • There is a house in New Orleans, it's called the Rising Sun It's been the ruin of many a poor girl Great God, and I for one

  3. The flag of Japan.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Imperial Japan

      Imperial Japan; Imperial Japanese rule.

      • Sixty years after the end of World War II, the thinning ranks of American ex-POWs have received neither compensation for their slave labor under the Rising Sun nor an apology from Japan.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA