What is the prefecture, city and town emblem called?


Prefectures, cities and towns have a seal/emblem associated with them. I have
found the terms on JA Wikipedia to describe the flags, but not the term to
describe the emblems. Thank you.




'章' is the kanji for such emblems, like
[都道府県章](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%83%BD%E9%81%93%E5%BA%9C%E7%9C%8C%E7%AB%A0)
for prefectures, 市章 for cities, and so on. 国章 is used to refer to national
coat of arms. To give a specific example, we have 京都市章 for the city of Kyoto,
as mentioned by 道理百遍義理一遍.

_Emblems_ or _coat of arms_ in general is 紋章 in Japanese (As far as I know, we
don't have specific words to distinguish emblems and coat of arms). So
「京都市の紋章」 _the emblem of Kyoto city_ is another (more descriptive) expression,
and is actually [used by the city of
Kyoto](http://www.city.kyoto.lg.jp/sogo/page/0000015587.html). As a side note,
Heraldry is 紋章学.




'章' is the kanji for such emblems, like
[都道府県章](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%83%BD%E9%81%93%E5%BA%9C%E7%9C%8C%E7%AB%A0)
for prefectures, 市章 for cities, and so on. 国章 is used to refer to national
coat of arms. To give a specific example, we have 京都市章 for the city of Kyoto,
as mentioned by 道理百遍義理一遍.

_Emblems_ or _coat of arms_ in general is 紋章 in Japanese (As far as I know, we
don't have specific words to distinguish emblems and coat of arms). So
「京都市の紋章」 _the emblem of Kyoto city_ is another (more descriptive) expression,
and is actually [used by the city of
Kyoto](http://www.city.kyoto.lg.jp/sogo/page/0000015587.html). As a side note,
Heraldry is 紋章学.

