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City Mark of Hiroshima

In feudal days, Japan has some three hundred local lords or daimyo, each with two or three hundred retainers or samurai under him. Each daimyo and samurai had a family crest or emblem of his own, and Japan was rich then in heraldic emblems. The significance of the crest has, however, considerably depreciated since the Restoration of the Imperial administration in 1868, though each Japanese still wears a crest sometimes. It is woven into the fabric of the "haori" or upper garment.

Its crest was adopted in 1896. It represents a stream, which is the crest of Marquis Asano, the feudal lord of the clan of Hiroshima, also called "The City of Water."