Light green with a kanji and three white arrows: the drawing plays on the name of Tochigi and on its tree, the horse chestnut.
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It is a green field with a 7:10 ratio with the white emblem of the prefecture in the centre.
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Tochigi approved its emblem on 1 December 1962 and the flag two years later
The flag of Tochigi has not changed since 1964
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The flag of Tochigi is light green, with a white drawing in the centre, and it is one of the few Japanese prefectures that bets on green.
Tochigi approved its emblem on 1 December 1962 and the flag two years later, on 1 March 1964, with the same drawing, which has not changed. What the prefecture declares in writing is that it expresses progress and movement; the play with the Chinese characters is a very repeated reading, but not the official one.
The flag of Tochigi has not changed since 1964.
Light green
the ground, called pea green; a shade little used among the prefectures.
Kanji “tochi”
it is pronounced like the first syllable of the name and is at the same time the horse chestnut, the tree of the prefecture; that relation to the tree is a popular reading, not an official declaration.
Three arrows
they recall an ancient kanji meaning “wood”.
The emblem was approved on 1 December 1962; the flag came two years later with the same drawing, unchanged.
Among the 47 Japanese prefectural flags, Tochigi’s green stands out because almost no other uses it as a ground.
Some sources give it a ratio of 7 to 10, slightly less elongated than the 2 to 3 usual in the other prefectures.
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Flag image: Monaneko, Mike Rohsopht, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain.
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