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image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 10 February 2025The filename of the original image at
http://kunnesiri.narod.ru/flag.gif
indicates that this graphic is meant to be a flag indeed (both as the English
word "flag" and as the romanization of Russian equivalent "флаг"), but at
http://kunnesiri.narod.ru it’s not easy
to figure out exactly what is this the flag of.
Given that the emblem on
the flag is the same as the one on the Ainu flag
developed in Hokkaido by Bikki Sunazawa in 1973 (quoting Nozomi Kariyasu, 21 Mar
1999), this is very likely a cross-border Ainu flag, but it’s apparently not in
widespread use - being therefore a proposal awaiting recognition.
It’s a
~2:3 white flag with Ainu symbol on it, the spiral elements in light green
instead of white, and along the top and bottom edges a thin red lines with dark
blue ornaments, not reaching the fly nor hoist edges. The ornamentation repeats
six times in a pattern that looks like a pair of curly brackets enclosing a pipe
("{|}"), laid horizontally.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 10
February 2025
