List of municipal flags of Kansai region
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List of Japanese municipal flags | |||||||
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Hokkaidō | Tōhoku | Kantō | Chūbu | Kansai | Chūgoku | Shikoku | Kyūshū |
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[edit] Mie Prefecture
Flag | Municipality | Description |
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Iga | The kanji 伊 (i). | |
Ise | The letter ISE. | |
Kumano | The katakana クマノ (Kumano). | |
Kuwana | The symbol represents a clam. | |
Matsusaka | The katakana マ (ma). | |
Nabari | The kanji 名 (na). | |
Owase | The katakana オ (o), representing an eagle (wase in the local dialect). | |
Shima | The letter S. | |
Suzuka | The kanji 鈴 (suzu, "bell"), representing a bell. | |
Tsu | The hiragana つ (Tsu). | |
Yokkaichi | The kanji 四日 (yokka). |
[edit] Shiga Prefecture
Flag | Municipality | Description |
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Higashiōmi | The symbol represents 近 (chika), the first kanji of 近江 (ōmi), as well as the letter e for "east" (higashi). | |
Hikone | The katakana ヒコネ (Hikone). The symbol represents a carapace of a turtle, as the Hikone Castle stands on Mount Konki, literally "the Gold Turtle Mountain". | |
Kōka | The kanji 甲 (kō). | |
Kusatsu | The hiragana くさつ (Kusatsu). | |
Nagahama | A calabash, based on the symbol of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Three waves symbolizes the Lake Biwa, as well as the three municipalities merged in 2006 to form the current city. Both colors are equally official. | |
Ōtsu | The kanji 大 (ō) representing a bird, and the katakana ツ (tsu) representing the waves of the Lake Biwa. |
[edit] Kyoto Prefecture
Flag | Municipality | Description |
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Fukuchiyama | The nine (ku) katakana フ (fu). The symbol can be either gold or white. | |
Kameoka | The symbol represents various letters, including the hiragana かめ (kame), the katakana カメ (kame), the Latin alphabets KA, and others. | |
Kyoto | The kanji 京 (kyō), which represents a wheel of an ancient court cow carriage. | |
Maizuru | The katakana マイ (mai), representing a crane. Japanese for "crane" is tsuru, or zuru when it's voiced. | |
Miyazu | The letter M with the katakana ヤ (ya). The symbol as a whole represents the katakana ツ (tsu), which becomes ヅ (zu) when written with dakuten. The M-shape represents Amanohashidate. | |
Uji | The kanji 宇 (u). |
[edit] Osaka Prefecture
Flag | Municipality | Description |
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Daitō | The kanji 大 (dai) and the hiragana とう (tō). | |
Habikino | The kanji 羽 (ha). | |
Higashiōsaka | The hiragana ひ (hi), representing a pigeon. | |
Hirakata | The hiragana ひ (hi), representing a flying bird. On the upper fly is the municipal symbol, composed of the katakana ヒラ (hira) and the kanji 方 (kata). The small symbol also represents a river ship. | |
Ibaraki | The kanji 茨 (ibara), representing a pigeon. | |
Ikeda | The outer symbol is a water well used for staining, and the inner symbol is a bobbin. According to the legend, the two Chinese seamstresses named Ayahatori and Kurehatori came to the city in the 3rd century, introducing the weaving technology to the country. | |
Izumi | 泉 (izumi), the second kanji of 和泉 (Izumi). | |
Kadoma | The kanji 門真市 (Kadoma-shi), representing a flying bird. | |
Kaizuka | The five pine leaves surround the waves of Osaka Bay and the kanji 貝 (kai). | |
Kawachinagano | The kanji 長 (naga). The surrounding shape represents Osaka Prefecture. | |
Kishiwada | The meaning of the old symbol, announced in 1922, is not clearly known. It is believed that the symbol is either the kanji 岸 (kishi), the katakana キ (ki), or the kanji 干 (kan) of rankan (parapet bridge). | |
Minoo | The three (mi) katakana ノ (no). | |
Moriguchi | The kanji 守口 (Moriguchi). | |
Neyagawa | The katakana ネ (ne), representing an arrow (ya). The symbol as a whole represents 川 (kawa), the last kanji of 寝屋川 (Neyagawa). | |
Osaka | The symbol is miotsukushi, channel markers used in old times. | |
Sakai | The three kanji 市 ("city"), as the city faced the three provinces, namely Izumi, Kawachi, and Settsu. | |
Suita | The kanji 吹 (sui) representing a pigeon. The background is the kanji 田 (ta) representing a flower. The variant flag with the city name in hiragana on the lower fly exists, for the use of sport events and such. | |
Takatsuki | The kanji 高 (taka). The symbol is a hybrid of those of Osaka and Kyoto, as the city is placed between these two. | |
Tondabayashi | The three (mi) katakana ト (to). Tomi is the normal reading of 富, the first kanji of 富田林 (Tondabayashi). | |
Toyonaka | The four (yo) katakana ト (to). As a whole, the symbol represents the kanji 中 (naka). | |
Yao | The letters Y and O. |
[edit] Hyōgo Prefecture
Flag | Municipality | Description |
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Aioi | The letter A, representing a boat and ocean waves. | |
Akashi | The kanji 明 (aka). | |
Amagasaki | The katakana アマ (ama). It is also the kanji 工 ("industry"), symbolizing the industrial city. Two dots are from the kanji 小 (o), added when Oda Village merged with Amagasaki in 1936. | |
Ashiya | The four lines represent the four municipalities merged in 1922 to form the current city. | |
Himeji | The katakana ヒ (hi), representing an egret. | |
Itami | The kanji 伊 (i), symbolizing a swan of the Koya Pond. | |
Kakogawa | The 川 (kawa, "river"), the last kanji of 加古川 (Kakogawa), representing the Kakogawa River. | |
Kawanishi | The kanji 川西 (Kawanishi). There are apparently two versions of the flag colors, one with the blue symbol on the white background, another with the red symbol on the white background. | |
Kobe | カ (ka), which was the first katakana of カウベ (Kobe), the former spelling of the city's name. It also represents a fan, as the port is fan-shaped. | |
Nishinomiya | The hiragana に (ni). | |
Sanda | The katakana サ (sa). | |
Sumoto | The traditional mon symbolizes a cay, su in Japanese. | |
Takarazuka | The katakana タカラ (takara). | |
Takasago | The kanji 高 (taka). | |
Toyooka | The kanji 豊 (toyo). The six lines represent the six municipalities merged in 2005 to form the current city. |
[edit] Nara Prefecture
Flag | Municipality | Description |
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Asuka | 明 (aka), the first kanji of 明日香 (Asuka), rotated 90 degrees to the right. It symbolizes a flying bird (asuka). | |
Ikoma | The kanji 生 (i). | |
Kashihara | The katakana カ (ka), representing the Black Kite. | |
Nara | The kanji 奈 (na) inside sakura (cherry blossom). | |
Tenri | The kanji 天 (ten), representing ume (plum). The five petals also represent the five municipalities merged in 1954 to form the current city. The municipal symbol and the flag are similar to those of Tenrikyo, a new religion which the city hosts. | |
Totsukawa | The kanji 十 (to) representing swords, originally used as Totsukawa Gōshi (local samurai) symbol. The town of Shintotsukawa, Hokkaidō uses the same symbol. | |
Yamatokōriyama | The four kanji 山 (yama), originally the symbol of the Yanagisawa clan of the Kōriyama Domain. There also is the municipal sub-flag. [1] |
[edit] Wakayama Prefecture
Flag | Municipality | Description |
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Hashimoto | The katakana ハシ (hashi), representing a boat on the Kinokawa River. | |
Shingū | The symbol represents ocean waves and a mountain. | |
Tanabe | A star with the kanji 田 (ta). | |
Wakayama | The symbol represents mountains surrounding the city. The circle is the katakana カ (ka), and the inside is the kanji 和 (wa). |