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Kōchi, 高知県

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[[Kōchi]](../images/j/jp-39.gif)
image by Kazutaka Nishiura, 27 March 2015

Description of the flag

The emblem is a combination of wine red colour stylized Katakana character of Ko (コ) of Kochi and Kanji character of To of Tosa old name of Kochi on wine red colour field. In the emblem circle stands for peace and cooperation and upright sword shape for improvement. Adopted 15 April 1953.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 6 May 1998

Brown flag with two white semicircles and a drop-like shape. 2:3~
Proportions of the flags are given from W. Smith 1980. Interestingly some of the flags there are marked as state flags while this one has no markings. I am not quite sure how to interpret the meaning of missing markings.
Željko Heimer, 16 November 1996

The prefecture emblem was adopted on Apr 15th 1953 but there is no flag law. They used a maroon flag with a white prefecture emblem in the center.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 27 March 2015

Municipal Flags of Kōchi Prefecture