| TRANSPORT UNITS |
The transport units carried food, ammunition, and other supplies to the troops. It appears that within the transport units were also the medical units and the field hospitals. The main patterns and symbols found on transport cups include horses, vehicles, and once in a while weapons. However, it must be said that almost anything was on these transport cups. Since the number of soldiers in transport units was large, you can easily find cups from these units. In addition to the transport-specific patterns you'll also see a lot of more general designs like crossed flags, military stars, and cherry blossoms. |
| Heavy Transport 10th Regiment |
| The kanji for TRANSPORT, often combined with HEAVY, as seen in the three pictures to the right. |
| Here the kanji for TRANSPORT is followed by a number, 17, which indicates the regiment number. |
| Heavy Transport 14th regiment |
| Heavy Transport 16th Regiment |
| Heavy Transport 3rd regiment |
| Transport 2nd Division Furoshiki (towel) |
| Military Reservist cup with raised badge. There is a gold gilt horse and falcon here, which is uncommon. The characters read '10th Heavy Transport, Discharge Commemorative.' |
| Impressive, bold, unglazed Transport Unit cup with hand-painted horse and flag. This kind of cup is really rare, brown and unglazed, big and deep.The characters read 'Kobayashi, Heavy Transport, 70th Regiment.' Bizen kiln, very high quality. |
| A rare signed flag (YOSEKAKI) sake cup. In practice, Japanese soldiers were given a silk or cloth flag signed by friends and family. He would then take it with him to battle. This cup has a flag like that; these rarely appear on sake cups for some unknown reason. The phrases on this flag are: The Glory of the Country, Banzai to the Japanese Empire, Loyalty & Bravery.' The other characters read 'Heavy Transport 3rd Regiment Commemorative'. See this page for another example with a slightly different inscription. |
| Heavy Transport 9th regiment |
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| The five Soldier Virtues around the rim: Courtesy, Loyalty, Frugality, Courage, and Truthfulness. 16th Regiment |
| Heavy Transport, 3rd Regiment |
