Kaminoyama City [Yamagata prefecture Japan] (original) (raw)

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上山市

[ [flag of Kaminoyama] ](../images/j/jp-06-km.gif)
image by Tomislav Šipek, 17 September 2014

The Flag

Kaminoyama city adopted its emblem in May 1955 by Notice No 39; adoption date of flag : 10 January 1975 by Notice No 1 (page in Japanese).
Flag proportion: 2:3; colour of field: purplish blue.
Colour of emblem: white; diameter of emblem: 3/5 flag height; a stylized kanji Kaminoyama 上山 in the shape of a crane.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 3 February 2006

The emblem has the kanji Kaminoyama 上 (above, up) 山 (mountain) deformed to show a crane, from tourist city Kaminoyama's Tsuruhagi hot springs. It also expresses the strength of a bud sprouting from a seed split in two. The field colour is given according to JIS Z8721, I think as hue 5PB brightness 2, saturation 12.
Jonathan Dixon, 11 May 2006

The flag of the city of Kaminoyama is already reported, but emblem is slightly wrong so here is new flag of the city.
Sources:http://www.yamagata-np.jp/news/201212/06/kj_2012120600160.php
http://blog-imgs-24-origin.fc2.com/k/a/m/kaminoyamania/P1040338.jpg
http://yamagata-np.jp/news/201405/07/kj_2014050700107.php
Tomislav Šipek, 17 September 2014

The city emblem was adopted in May 1955 by Notice No 39 and the flag was adopted on Jan 10th 1975 by Notice No1. The blue flag has a white city emblem in the center. The city emblem is a stylized kanji 上山 Kaminoyama in a form of a crane as the tourist city is famous for Tsuru(crane) hagi Hotspring. It represents a power of a new bud grown from a seed. The flag proportion is 2: 3. The diameter of the embelm is 3/5 of the height of the flag.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 17 September 2014