Matsukawa Village (Nagano Prefecture, Japan)

松川村

Last modified: 2023-06-03 by zachary harden
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image by Tomislav Šipek, 03 June 2014

See also:

• Municipal flags of Nagano prefecture
• Nagano Prefecture

The flag of the village of Matsukawa is green with mark.
Sources: http://maruyama-farm.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2011/03/post-c998.html
http://www.vill.matsukawa.nagano.jp/300/reiki_int/reiki_honbun/ae79700031.html
Tomislav Šipek, 14 May 2014

The village emblem was adopted on Dec 20th 1966 by Instructions No 2 and the flag was adopted on Oct 1st 1977 by Notice No 10. The green flag has a white village emblem in the center. The village emblem is a stylized katakana マ Ma and kanji 川 Kawa. The circle symbolizes a concord and the letter 川 does Takase River, Chichi River and Ashima River. It represents an image of a peaceful village and a perpetual stream which is developing for the future with the villagers friendship and a solidarity. The flag proportion is 5:7.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 19 May 2014

According to Mr. Kariyasu I changed the dimensions.
Tomislav Šipek, 03 June 2014