Purple with a white kanji surrounded by three curves: they are neither waves nor skis, they are the three mountains of Gunma.
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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 rectangular field —the cloth of the flag —with a 2:3 ratio, purple and plain, with the emblem of the prefecture painted in white in the centre.
Each element and how many of the 1,390 flags in the catalogue carry it. In yellow, the rarest.
Every date in its story, at a glance.
Gunma approved its emblem on 1 October 1926 and its flag on 25 October 1968
The flag of Gunma has stayed the same since 1968
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The flag of Gunma is purple, with a white drawing on it. It looks like a Chinese character between three curves, but those curves are not waves: they are the three mountains that dominate the prefecture.
Gunma approved its emblem on 1 October 1926 and its flag on 25 October 1968, and it has not changed. In the centre there is, very stylised, the kanji “gun”, the first syllable of the name. Around it, three white curves representing its three mountains: Akagi, Haruna and Myōgi. The purple was chosen as elegant, for a land with a lot of heritage.
The flag of Gunma has stayed the same since 1968.
Purple
a colour chosen for being refined and cultured, tied to the history of the prefecture.
Kanji “gun”
the first syllable of “Gunma”, drawn in a very simple way.
Three white curves
the mountains Akagi, Haruna and Myōgi.
Many people think they see waves or skiers in the three white curves, but the prefecture says they are its three mountains: Akagi, Haruna and Myōgi.
The 1926 emblem draws the character inside mountain shapes; the 1968 flag uses the same kanji, but without the mountains around it.
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Flag image: Monaneko, Mike Rohsopht, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain.
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