Kiryu City (Gunma Prefecture, Japan)

桐生市　

Last modified: 2023-06-03 by zachary harden
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image by Tomislav Šipek, 17 July 2014

• The Flag
• Kurohone
• Niisato

• Gunma Prefecture
• Municipal flags of Japan

The Flag

The flag of the city of Kiryu is purple with mark.
Sources: http://sadakata.asablo.jp/blog/2011/03/05/
http://www.pref.gunma.jp/chiji/z9000013.html
http://www.city.naruto.tokushima.jp/mayor/photo/2303.html
Tomislav Šipek, 17 July 2014

The city emblem was adopted on Oct 2nd 1928 but there is no flag law. The purple flag has a white city emblem in the center. The city emblem is a stylized kanji 大 Dai in a form of Paulownia flower and three leaves.  It represents a repletion and a development of the city.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 17 July 2014

Kurohone Village / 黒保根村

image by Tomislav Šipek, 22 July 2014

The flag of the former village of Kurohone is yellowish green with mark. The village is now, from 2005, part of the city of Kiryu.
Source: http://www.city.kiryu.gunma.jp/gappei/images/choinshiki/kaijyo_1_b.gif
Tomislav Šipek, 22 July 2014

Niisato Village / 新里村

image by Tomislav Šipek, 22 July 2014

The flag of the former village of Niisato is blue with mark. The village is now, from 2005, part of the city of Kiryu.
Source: http://www.city.kiryu.gunma.jp/gappei/images/choinshiki/kaijyo_1_b.gif
Tomislav Šipek, 22 July 2014