Rising Sun

Meanings

1. Any of various places:
2. A number of places in the United States:
3. An unincorporated community in Pope County, Illinois.
4. An unincorporated community in White County, Illinois.
5. A city, the county seat of Ohio County, Indiana, also located in Randolph Township.
6. A town in Cecil County, Maryland.
7. An unincorporated community in Leflore County, Mississippi.
8. An unincorporated community in the town of Utica, Crawford County, Wisconsin.
9. A hamlet in Calstock parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX3970).
10. Any of many roadhouses or public houses, past or present, in Anglophone countries; calques exist in other lands and languages as well.

1. The flag of Japan.
2. Imperial Japan; Imperial Japanese rule.

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.