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Kyoto City (Kyōto Prefecture, Japan)

京都市

Last modified: 2010-03-06 by phil nelson
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Kyoto city flag
image by Kazutaka Nishiura 22 October 2009

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The city emblem was adopted on Jan 1st 1960 by the Notice No 306 but no flag law.

The white flag is charged with gold and dull purple city emblem in the center.

The flag proportion 2:3.

The city emblem is composed of stylized kanji 京 KYO and an ancient style court carriage in gold and dull purple representing ancient capital of Japan.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 22 October 2009