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Japan. Wooden Identification Tag for Field Equipment of the Imperial Japanese Army.
During the Second World War, the Imperial Japanese Army used small wooden tablets as identification tags. These wooden tags had various purposes: they could serve as substitutes for soldiers’ metal dog tags near the end of the war, as identifiers for the owner of field equipment, as good-luck charms, or simply as serial numbers for military gear.
This particular example bears the number «196» (は百九十六), suggesting it was likely used to catalogue or identify Field Equipment.
