An olive leaf traced with the syllable ka in white on olive green: Kagawa came late to prefectural flags, in 1977.
Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.
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It is a rectangular field with a 2:3 ratio in olive green, with the symbol of the prefecture in white and centred.
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 Kagawa is olive green with a white symbol in the centre. It is the syllable ka (カ) of the katakana syllabary, turned so that it looks at once like a leaf and like a mountain range. One of the youngest prefectural flags in Japan, because Kagawa took a long time to have one.
The current emblem and flag were approved together by prefectural notification number 295 of 1 October 1977. Until then, official events made do with the standard of the prefectural sports association.
The official flag has only existed since 1977, and has not changed since.
until 1977
Until the prefecture regulated its flag, that of the Kagawa sports association was borrowed: white with an olive band towards the fly side and the prefectural name in cut-out.
1977
Emblem and flag are approved by the same notification. The field is olive green with the white symbol taking up 3/5 of the height.
Ka turned into a leaf
according to the prefecture’s official interpretation, the lines of the syllable evoke both the mountains of the territory and the leaves of the olive tree, the prefecture’s tree and flower.
Olive tree
an ancient symbol of peace, representing the blessed land and the development of Kagawa.
Olive ground
the notification prescribes the olive colour, although the prefecture itself admits that the flags made usually come out a more normal green.
From 1951 to 1977 Kagawa used a staff badge: the kanji kō (香) at an angle and the one for river (川) turned into three rings. It went on official cars and on the labels of agricultural products.
The rule fixes the ground with strict colour codes, Munsell 2.5GY 3.1/8.6, but in practice almost no cloth reproduces it and most Kagawa flags come out green.
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Flag image: Zscout370, Mike Rohsopht, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0.
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