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image by Tomislav Šipek, 26 February 2014
The flag of the village of Totsukawa is white with mark.
Source:
http://www.mod.go.jp/gsdf/mae/3d/taifu12miokuri.html
Tomislav Šipek, 26 February 2014
The village emblem was adopted on Oct 1st 1983 but there is no flag law. The
white flag has a black village emblem in the center. The emblem was granted by
Imperial Court in 1863.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 27 May 2014
Hm, 1863 saw the beginnings of what would become the Imperial Restoration.
And when that came to pass, Totsukawa Samurai formed the personal guard of the
Emperor. What was the relation between the Emperor and Totsukawa, that
resulted in this grant?
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 31 May 2014
Totsukawa village had a long history to guard Imperial Family. Before Meiji
Restoration they sent samurai to Kyoto to guard Imperial Palace. That is why the
emblem was granted. Please see this
photo of the flag bearing a red Imperial crest and a black Totsukawa village
emblem together used by Totsukawa Samurai then. I took the photo from Totsukawa
Village History Museum.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 31 May 2014
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 31 May 2014
OK, this would look somewhat similar.
(The Chrysanthemum started out as Jaume's Emperor's flag at sea,
1871-1889, the mon of Totsukawa Village is from
Tomislav's village flag, and the ratio of 2:1 is after
the black Ohu Reppan Domei flag.)
I guess that would be the flag of the Emperor's Totsukawa guard, but I
haven't seen the page of the museum; they may have a better description. And if
we could ask them, they might have a photograph that shows the entire flag.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 31 May 2014
Here is the museum website.
http://totsukawa.info/joho/kanko/3Historical_Museum.html There is no English
text at such country side. I showed the entire flag image from the Museum.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 31 May 2014