Flag Challenge 19/09/10 - Voting Thread

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New Challenge: Japanese Prefecture Flag

New Challenge: Sunday September 19th

Closing Date for entries: Wednesday September 22nd

Suggestion for this challenge was done by The Professor in the Discussion thread.

• POD: After 1543 OTL, when the Portuguese landed on Tanegeshima Island.

• CHALLENGE: Create a flag for a Japanese Prefecture, complete with kamon, for somewhere that either wasn't under Japanese control or was lost OTL.

Some background info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefectures_of_Japan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamon_(crest)

 

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Entry 1

Here is my entry for the new contest for Japanese south Kamchatka perfecture (it has a very low population so the whole peninsula is just two perfectures)
The symbol is just something random I made up, the blue sides represent the seas on both it's sides, and the white represents snow or something i guess.

 

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Entry 2

Flag for Japanese East Africa

After WWI and the capture of German East Africa by a joint Japanese-British expedition, a large part of Deutsch Ostafrika was granted as a League of Nations territory to Japan.

This flag has a Kamon which has a very stylized continent of afrika: the five-sided central figure. The arrow stands for the Japanese presence in East-Afrika.

 

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Entry 3

Flag for South Madagascar

The forced marriage of Emperor Meiji of Japan to Queen Ranavalona III of Madagascar was seen as a good way of the Progressive (Westernized) faction of Japan to quickly join the Europeans as colonial and world powers. While it brought them quickly into conflict with the European powers, especially France, the further opening of Japanese markets to the West soon smoothed over any trouble for the next fifteen years. Of course before the marriage could be proposed certain people in Madagascar and in Japan had to be removed. So was created the Office of the....


The flag is a gray-turquoise field bisected my a sigmoidal line. The two halves of the field represent the Pacific and Indian oceans, with the line as a gentle wave. The kamon is a Nautilus and an Argonaut joined together in such a way as to form two smaller ones of each. The magenta color of the kamon represents the mixing of bloodlines between Japan and Madagascar.

 

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Entry 4

Flag of Hawaii Prefecture. Blue for the Pacific Ocean, white for peace and pink/red for the island of Hawaii. The mon is a hibiscus, the prefectural flower with the eight central segments representing the eight main Hawaiian Islands.

 

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Entry 5

Vietnamese prefecture from an Axis-wank scenario. Fairly straightforward, mixes elements from the Japanese and Vietnamese flags