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![[Flag of Fukushima Domain]](../images/j/jp_char.gif)
image by Jaume Ollé and Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 24 March 2014
Located at Yamaguchi Prefecture. Last lord's name: Mouri Motonori.
Choshu Domain army flag
They used
two colors flag diagonally divided white hoist and red fly as Domain's army flag
(vertical bit long one ) 白赤違染分旗
They also used white field charged with black three stars and Chinese
character figure One as Domain's naval ensign. 白地黒一文字三ツ星旗
Nozomi Kariyasu, 24 March 2014
It's a 5:4 high flag. As always with older high flags, I wonder: Was this
flag free flying from a pole/staff, or was it also hanging from a horizontal
bar?
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 24 March 2014
This flag is not hanging from a horizontal bar but use flag staff.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 25 March 2014
Choshu Domain ensign:
![[Flag of Fukushima Domain]](../images/j/jp-che.gif)
image by Kazutaka Nishiura and Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 24 March 2014
The width and the length proportion of the army flag is still vertical long
according to Japanese traditional of war banner however the proportion of the
ensign already adopted Western flag proportion horizontally long.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 24 March 2014
Does that mean that ensigns originally weren't horizontal either? Or were
there no ensigns before these horizontal ensigns?
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 24 March 2014
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