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![[Tatebayashi]](../images/j/jp-10-ha1.gif)
image by Tomislav Šipek, 18 July 2014
The flags of the town of Higashiagatsuma are blue or white with mark.
Sources:
http://www1.town.higashiagatsuma.gunma.jp/www/contents/1362464255416/index.html
http://pub.ne.jp/kadokuni/?monthly_id=200910&page=2
http://www.city.minamisoma.lg.jp/index.cfm/8,15043,38,249,html
Tomislav Šipek, 18 July 2014
They say a white color is an official town flag.
The town emblem was adopted on Mar 1st 2007 by Notice No 11 but there is no flag
law. The white flag has a blue and a light blue two color town emblem in the
center. The town emblem is a stylized hiragana ひ Hi of Higashiagatsuma. The
upper part symbolizes Agatsuma River running east and west thru the town and the
wave does a breath of nature. The blue color stands for a blue sky and a bright
future.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 22 July 2014
![[Higashiagatsuma]](../images/j/jp-10-ha.gif)
image by Tomislav Šipek, 18 July 2014
![[Higashiagatsuma]](../images/j/jp-10-ha-az.gif)
image by Tomislav Šipek, 24 July 2014
The flag of the former village of Azuma was white with mark. The village is
now, from 2006, part of the town of Higashiagatsuma.
Source:
http://www1.town.higashiagatsuma.gunma.jp/www/contents/1204199222881/index.htm
Tomislav Šipek, 24 July 2014
Azuma 東村 means Eastern Village. Now they use the kanji of 東 for Azuma however
it seems that the word Azuma originated from a legend of Yamato Takeru legendary
prince born in year 72.
He was sent by Emperor to crush the great rebellion in eastern land whose people
disobeyed the imperial court and on way back from eastern land he stayed in
presently Gunma and commemorated his late wife. He said "Oh my wife =
Azuma haya" in ancient Japanese. Azuma can write as 吾妻 = "my wife" and we can find
the municipal
name in Nagasaki Prefecture.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 28 January 2015
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