The silhouette of the territory in green on a white field: the flag of Aomori, of 1961, copies the shape of this Japanese prefecture of two peninsulas.
Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.
Normal flagFIAV symbol: the form of the flag.
CivilFIAV symbol: who may fly the flag.YesIt carries the coat of arms on the cloth.The flag in the words of vexillology and heraldry.
It is a white flag with a 7:10 ratio, a little squarer than most, with the emblem of the prefecture in the centre.
Each element and how many of the 1,390 flags in the catalogue carry it. In yellow, the rarest.
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The flag of Aomori is a white field with a dark green emblem in the centre that draws the shape of the territory of the prefecture.
Aomori is a prefecture in the north of Japan, in the Tōhoku region, on the coast of the Sea of Japan. Its flag was adopted on 1 January 1961.
The emblem is a map. Not a detailed map: the silhouette of the territory, drawn in green on the white.
It has never changed. It was adopted in 1961 and there are no documented later modifications.
White
the background of the field, plain and with no divisions.
Emblem
in the centre, in dark green, drawing the shape of the territory of Aomori.
No ornaments
neither a second figure nor a border in any other colour.
The flag of Aomori carries neither a heraldic emblem nor a symbol: it carries the silhouette of the prefecture itself. It is the most literal possible translation of a territory onto a field, with no intermediaries.
The emblem does not simplify the outline: it reproduces it. Anyone who sees the flag already knows what shape the prefecture has. It is a case where the emblem is pure geography, with no heraldic layer on top.
White and dark green, and a single motif. It is the least amount of information a flag can contain, and it is still recognisable: the silhouette is enough.
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Text based on the article “Bandera de Aomori” from the Spanish Wikipedia, published under the licence CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Flag image: Monaneko, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain.
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