'Yellow Badge' Coincidence

[Benjamin]

In an angry, fed-up moment, I was going to find an image of a 'Yellow Badge' (like the ones Jewish people from WWII were forced to wear) and replace the word 'Jude' with 'Unvaxed'. But, I didn't (it was already done in one way or another anyway). However, in my searches, I found a photo of an uncut sheet of these badges.



If you are familiar with the symbol, it should jump right out at you. And I'm not talking about the 'Yellow Badge'. Look at the 'negative space', the dotted lines to show the person where to cut. What does that look like?

More about the logo | History | About | MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Global website

More about the logo, in the History section of Mitsubishi Electric's website.

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"Mitsubishi" and the Famous Three-Diamond Mark​

The name "Mitsubishi" refers to the three-diamond emblem. "Mitsubishi" is a combination of the words mitsu and hishi. Mitsu means three. Hishi means water chestnut, and Japanese have used the word for a long time to denote a rhombus or diamond shape. Japanese often bend the "h" sound to a "b" sound when it occurs in the middle of a word. So they pronounce the combination of mitsu and hishi as mitsubishi.


Yataro Iwasaki, the founder of the old Mitsubishi organization, chose the three-diamond mark as the emblem for his company. The mark is suggestive of the three-leaf crest of the Tosa Clan, Yataro's first employer, and also of the three stacked rhombuses of the Iwasaki family crest.

The current logo was created in 1964, and all I'm saying is it was a weird coincidence that jumped out at me. I mean, if you cut the red diamonds in half, the Mitsubishi logo is made up of 10 equilateral triangles and the Yellow Badges are all made up of equilateral triangles too. I'm not yelling "conspiracy". It was just funny to come across.

 

[Benjamin]

While I was researching the Pleiades for the cock/rooster thread, I just happen to come across a reference that brought me to the Subaru site:

Mr. Kita was adamant that, "Japanese cars should have Japanese names." After several name proposals, Mr. Kita named it "Subaru," a beautiful Japanese name taken from the name of the star cluster in the Taurus constellation. Only six of its stars are visible to the naked eye, but about 250 bluish stars can be seen by telescope. In the West, that same cluster is called Pleiades. In China, Mao. In Japan, Subaru, which means to govern, gather together, or unite. In Japan, it also goes by the name Mutsuraboshi, translating to "Six Stars", which often appears in very old Japanese [8th century] documents such as the Kojiki and Manyoshu, and literature such as Makura-no-soshi. It's clear that this constellation was well-loved in Japan in ancient times. Fittingly enough, Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. was formed by the merger of six companies. From that moment on, the new corporation adopted the "Subaru" cluster of stars as the official logo for its line of cars.

To me, the 8th century word Mutsuraboshi sounds very similar to the current Mitsubishi, but I am not Japanese or have any understanding of the hiragana and katakana (Japanese script).

The history of the logo is:

In the 1870s, the shipping company Tsukumo Shokai, which was the precursor of Mitsubishi, used a triangular water chestnut icon on its ships' flags, and it is from this icon that the current three-diamond Mitsubishi icon originated. It is derived from the three-layer chestnut family crest of Yataro Iwasaki, founder of Tsukumo Shokai, and the three-leaved oak family crest of the Yamanouchi family, from the Tosa Clan. Records suggest that the Mitsubishi company name was settled on later.

The name "Mitsubishi" refers to the three-diamond emblem. "Mitsubishi" is a combination of the words mitsu and hishi. Mitsu means three. Hishi means water chestnut, and Japanese have used the word for a long time to denote a rhombus or diamond shape. Japanese often bend the "h" sound to a "b" sound when it occurs in the middle of a word. So they pronounce the combination of mitsu and hishi as mitsubishi.

I don't know if this has any synergy. I just ran across it. Though there is a whole lotta '6' goin' on.

 

[Renaissance]

The Star of David is a traditional Jewish symbol and it's use is widespread well beyond the yellow badges used in Nazi Germany. Plus, designers work with basic elements and shapes so it's not surprising to see similarities with various logos.

 

[Yupo]

Hmmm. I was just thinking what car should my next one be when I saw this thread.