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rising sun

On-Yomi: キョク — Kun-Yomi: あさひ

Elements:

rising sun, nine, baseball, sun, day

Heisig story:

This character is a sort of nickname for the Japanese flag with its well-known emblem of the rising sun. If you can picture two seams running down that great red sun, and then imagine it sitting on a baseball bat for a flagpole, you have a slightly irreverent - but not altogether inaccurate - picture of how the sport has caught on in the Land of the Rising Sun.

Koohii stories:

1) [Ameyama] 11-11-2007(249): 9am carries with it the rising sun.

2) [sutebun] 2-7-2007(137): Nine planets revolve around our rising sun.

3) [xsahjax] 8-8-2007(60): The sun rises before 9am.

4) [szreter] 30-3-2008(35): When the clock says 9 on the left, you can see the rising sun in the east (right).

5) [jefrsilva] 30-3-2008(21): A baseball player hits the sun and it becomes the rising sun.

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