As a face-saving gesture, Japanese soldiers who surrendered after the war made an attempt to grind the symbol off their rifles. The chrysanthemum stamp showed the rifle was manufactured for the Imperial Japanese Army and therefore belonged to the emperor. The rifle was stamped on the receiver with a sixteen-petal chrysanthemum, the symbol of the Japanese emperor. Thus, the Type 38 rifle was designed in the thirty-eighth year of the reign of Emperor Meiji which would have been 1905. The Arisaka rifles were designated with the year of the current emperor's reign. During the 1890s he headed a commission charged with developing a new rifle to replace earlier models such as the Murata. This rifle was named for Colonel Nariakira Arisaka. They were loaded with five-round stripper clips, a flat metal piece holding a five-round stack, which was inserted at the top of the magazine, the rounds thumbed down into position, and the metal piece sent flying when the bolt was closed. The Japanese Arisaka Type 38 rifles were all turn bolt-operated, with five-round non-detachable staggered row box magazines. ![]() Japanese Arisaka Type 38 rifle, 6.5 mm with forged-steel bayonet partially eradicated chrysanthemum stamp on receiver.
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