The mountain and mouth kanjis become a bird flying towards the sun: the flag of Yamaguchi, approved as early as 1962.
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It is a rectangular field with a 2:3 ratio in dark wine, with a white emblem centred: two Japanese letters drawn as a bird with its wings spread.
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.
The emblem and the flag were approved on 3 September 1962 by prefectural notification number 506
It was among the first: most Japanese provinces waited until 1968
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The flag of Yamaguchi is a dark wine brown with a white emblem in the centre. That emblem is a rebus: it combines the two kanjis of the name of the prefecture, yama (山, mountain) and kuchi (口, mouth), drawn as a bird flying towards the sun.
The emblem and the flag were approved on 3 September 1962 by prefectural notification number 506, to celebrate the ninetieth anniversary of the creation of the prefectural system. It was among the first: most Japanese provinces waited until 1968, like their neighbours Hiroshima and Tottori.
The flag has not changed since 1962.
Mountain and mouth turned into a bird
the two kanjis of the name, joined into a single figure that beats its wings.
Circle and sun
the bird flies towards the sun inside a round shape; for the prefecture it means the union and the leap forward of the inhabitants, and it evokes a land that has produced many relevant historical figures.
Brown shrimp ground
the prescribed colour is ebi-cha, a very dark wine; the emblem goes in white.
Yamaguchi, a peninsula with a very long coastline, regulates its fishing inspection vessels with a standard of its own: since 1980, a white field with two red stripes, the kanji for water and the emblem in gold.
On adopting its flag in 1962, Yamaguchi entered the small group of prefectures with a standard of their own; neighbours like Okayama and Shimane would still take years.
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Flag image: Alex Tora, Mike Rohsopht, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain.
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