The kanji ka in red on white: red and white for Yokohama, the historic port, and a flag with no law, just the emblem of 1948.
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It is a white rectangular field with a single red drawing in the centre.
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How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The flag of Kanagawa is white with a red drawing in the centre. That drawing looks like the letter M, but it is the kanji “ka” of its name, very stylised. It uses red and white, the national colours of Japan.
Kanagawa approved its emblem in November 1948, shortly after the war, and the flag has not changed since. There is no flag law: as in almost all the Japanese prefectures, the standard is simply the emblem placed on a field. Red and white, the colours of the country, were chosen because the port of Yokohama, which is in this prefecture, was for a long time the great gateway to Japan.
The flag of Kanagawa has been the same since its emblem of 1948.
Red (the kanji “ka”)
the first syllable of “Kanagawa”, drawn in a stylised way; it looks like a Latin M.
White
the ground; together with the red they are the national colours of Japan.
Red and white deliberately chosen
for Yokohama, the historic port of access to the country.
Kanagawa has no law regulating its flag. The standard is in fact: the emblem approved in 1948, used as a flag by custom.
A book of flags described the drawing as a stylised Latin M, but it is really the kanji “ka”, the first syllable of the name.
The sailing events of the 1964 Tokyo Games were held off the coast of Kanagawa, at Enoshima, the same year the neighbouring flag of Tokyo was adopted.
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Flag image: Monaneko, Mike Rohsopht, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain.
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