Musashino City (Tokyo, Japan)

武蔵野市

Last modified: 2015-01-03 by zoltán horváth
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image by Tomislav Šipek, 01 July 2014

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The Flag

Musashino city adopted its emblem in 1928. Flag proportion: 2:3, colour of field: purple, colour of emblem: white diameter of emblem: 3/5 flag height, a stylized katakana ムサシノ.
Source: Musashino website
Nozomi Kariyasu, 3 March 2006

The emblem consists of the katakana mu ム sa サ shi シ no ノ in the basic shape of three circles. The city website actually asks "Can you see which parts are each character?"
Jonathan Dixon, 9 June 2006

For City of Musashino I found two variants of flag: purple and blue.
Source: http://www.asia-u.ac.jp/official/online/2008/02/
http://www.city.musashino.lg.jp/shicho/8142/shicho_nisshi_h21/001424.html
Tomislav Šipek, 26 June 2014

Musashino City answered they use purple flag, not blue one.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 30 June 2014

Thanks to Mr. Kariyasu, here is correction of flag.
Tomislav Šipek, 01 July 2014

Reported Flag Variant

image by Tomislav Šipek, 26 June 2014