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Municipality |
Description |
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Fukuchiyama |
The nine (ku) katakana フ (fu). The symbol can be either gold or white. |
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Kameoka |
The symbol represents various letters, including the hiragana かめ (kame), the katakana カメ (kame), the Latin alphabets KA, and others. |
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Kyoto |
The kanji 京 (kyō), which represents a wheel of an ancient court cow carriage. |
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Maizuru |
The katakana マイ (mai), representing a crane. Japanese for "crane" is tsuru, or zuru when it's voiced. |
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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. |
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Uji |
The kanji 宇 (u). |
| Flag |
Municipality |
Description |
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Daitō |
The kanji 大 (dai) and the hiragana とう (tō). |
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Habikino |
The kanji 羽 (ha). |
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Higashiōsaka |
The hiragana ひ (hi), representing a pigeon. |
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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. |
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Ibaraki |
The kanji 茨 (ibara), representing a pigeon. |
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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. |
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Izumi |
泉 (izumi), the second kanji of 和泉 (Izumi). |
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Kadoma |
The kanji 門真市 (Kadoma-shi), representing a flying bird. |
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Kaizuka |
The five pine leaves surround the waves of Osaka Bay and the kanji 貝 (kai). |
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Kawachinagano |
The kanji 長 (naga). The surrounding shape represents Osaka Prefecture. |
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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). |
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Minoo |
The three (mi) katakana ノ (no). |
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Moriguchi |
The kanji 守口 (Moriguchi). |
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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). |
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Osaka |
The symbol is miotsukushi, channel markers used in old times. |
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Sakai |
The three kanji 市 ("city"), as the city faced the three provinces, namely Izumi, Kawachi, and Settsu. |
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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. |
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Takatsuki |
The kanji 高 (taka). The symbol is a hybrid of those of Osaka and Kyoto, as the city is placed between these two. |
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Tondabayashi |
The three (mi) katakana ト (to). Tomi is the normal reading of 富, the first kanji of 富田林 (Tondabayashi). |
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Toyonaka |
The four (yo) katakana ト (to). As a whole, the symbol represents the kanji 中 (naka). |
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Yao |
The letters Y and O. |
| Flag |
Municipality |
Description |
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Aioi |
The letter A, representing a boat and ocean waves. |
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Akashi |
The kanji 明 (aka). |
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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. |
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Ashiya |
The four lines represent the four municipalities merged in 1922 to form the current city. |
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Himeji |
The katakana ヒ (hi), representing an egret. |
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Itami |
The kanji 伊 (i), symbolizing a swan of the Koya Pond. |
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Kakogawa |
The 川 (kawa, "river"), the last kanji of 加古川 (Kakogawa), representing the Kakogawa River. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Nishinomiya |
The hiragana に (ni). |
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Sanda |
The katakana サ (sa). |
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Sumoto |
The traditional mon symbolizes a cay, su in Japanese. |
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Takarazuka |
The katakana タカラ (takara). |
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Takasago |
The kanji 高 (taka). |
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Toyooka |
The kanji 豊 (toyo). The six lines represent the six municipalities merged in 2005 to form the current city. |
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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). |
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Ikoma |
The kanji 生 (i). |
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Kashihara |
The katakana カ (ka), representing the Black Kite. |
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Nara |
The kanji 奈 (na) inside sakura (cherry blossom). |
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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. |
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Totsukawa |
The kanji 十 (to) representing swords, originally used as Totsukawa Gōshi (local samurai) symbol. The town of Shintotsukawa, Hokkaidō uses the same symbol. |
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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] |
Mie Prefecture
Shiga Prefecture
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Kyoto Prefecture
Osaka Prefecture
Hyōgo Prefecture
Nara Prefecture
Wakayama Prefecture
