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image by Eugene Ipavec, 20 August 2008
University of Hokkaido was founded 1876 as `Sapporo Agricultural College' by Dr W.S. Clark of
Massachusetts Agricultural College (US). Taken up in Tohoku Imperial
University at Sendai in 1907, reverse move in 1918 when Tohoku
Agricultural College is transferred to newly founded Hokkaido
Imperial University; adjective "Imperial" dropped in 1947. Being a
national establishment, incorporated 2004.
Eighteen faculties or graduate schools plus various institutions.
let me mention the Institute of Low Temperature Science and many
research centres. About eleven thousand undergraduates and nine
thousand graduates, staff more than six thousand.
Sources: Hokkaido University: History page
and Wikipedia: Hokkaido University
Jan Mertens, 07 September 2008
The Massachusetts Agricultural College, the parent institution of the
University of Hokkaido, was the original name of what is now the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst. The present name was adopted around the time of World
War II (see the UofM website for full details), and was the first actual public
institution of higher education in the Bay State. In addition to the Amherst
campus, which remains the headquarters of what is now the University of
Massachusetts State, there are now additional branches in Boston, Worcester,
Dartmouth (New Vedford) and elsewhere.
Ron Lahav, 08 September 2008
An ornamental banner, apparently purple, fringed purple, the emblem in white, centred.
Source:
http://www.hokudai.ac.jp/bureau/populi/edition22/toku1.html
Jan Mertens, 20 August, 2008
When I did my study of
university flags I had finished 2/3 of the Japanese universities before ill
health caused me to stop. I don't recall after such a long interval whether the
University of Hokkaido had an actual flag, but like you I agree that the
example shown would not have been it. Those Japanese universities which do have
flags use designs which conform more or less to Western vex traditions. Only
about a third of the Japanese universities which I had investigated actually
had flags, although all had logos or seals and in some cases both.
The second link definitely shows what looks like the Hokkaido University flag,
although I never saw it when I was looking around in Japanese university web
sites. It is possible that this flag was added to the web site since last
winter. In any event, as I noted, it conforms to Western vex conventions as do
most Japanese university flags where they exist. I am sorry that the image was
not in color, however.
Ron Lahav, 20 August 2008
I wanted to send & describe the other item for the sake of completeness but
when one looks closely it becomes clear this is only a flag-like item, a sort of
cloth to hang up.
Jan Mertens, 20 August, 2008
The emblem in the center of the flag of Hokkaido University could I suppose
be termed the university monogram, although there is probably an official
designation in Japanese for this. If one looks at most Japanese university web
sites one will find a similar design of Japanese characters, apparently arranged
vertically one above the other. I do not know in which script these letters are
written, but as I say simply opening the web site of most Japanese universities
will reveal a similar monogram.
Ron Lahav, 20 August 2008