Sixteen red jewels in a circle on white: the name Saitama means jewel, and that is what its emblem depicts since 1964.
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It is a rectangular field with a 2:3 ratio, white and plain, with a ring of sixteen red dots in the centre.
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The flag of Saitama is white with a ring of sixteen red dots in the centre. That ring is a necklace of jewels, and it makes sense: the name of the prefecture itself means jewel.
Saitama approved its emblem and its flag together, on 1 September 1964, and they have not changed since. The drawing is sixteen magatama, curved jewels typical of ancient Japan, set in a circle. The idea is simple and comes from the name: to use the jewel already written in it.
The flag of Saitama has been the same since its adoption, in 1964.
Sixteen red jewels (magatama)
a circle of these ancient jewels; the prefecture says it evokes the sun, development and strength.
White
purity and friendship.
The jewel of the name
among the kanji of “Saitama” is the one for “jewel”, which is precisely what the emblem depicts.
In the characters of Saitama the word jewel appears, and the emblem depicts precisely a necklace of those ancient jewels called magatama.
Saitama repeats the combination of the country: a white ground with a red mark, the same as the flag of Japan.
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Flag image: Monaneko, Xeror, Mike Rohsopht, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain.
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