Okuwa Village (Nagano Prefecture, Japan)

大桑村

Last modified: 2014-05-22 by zoltán horváth
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image by Tomislav Šipek, 13 May 2014

See also:

• Municipal flags of Nagano prefecture
• Nagano Prefecture

The flag of the village of Okuwa is green with mark.
Sources: http://www.vill.ookuwa.nagano.jp/soumu/kouhou/kouhou19/kouhou1911.html
http://blog.kisoji.com/ookuwamura/201208/article_6.html
Tomislav Šipek, 13 May 2014

The village emblem was adopted on Jun 20th 1989 but there is no flag law. The green flag has a white village emblem in the center. The village emblem is a stylized kanji 大 O of Okuwa in a form of a mulberry leaf. It symbolizes the past town industry sericulture.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 19 May 2014