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A monument slab carrying a horizontal band.
Also known as: Shizen saigai denshohi mark, Disaster memorial mark
Denotes a stone recording a past natural disaster on a Japanese topographic map, added to the national series in 2019.
Marks a monument recording a past natural disaster on a GSI topographic sheet.
Contexts: Maps
Was added to the national series in 2019, the first new Japanese map symbol in some fifteen years, after surveys found that stones recording historic floods and tsunami were being overlooked by the communities living beside them.
Contexts: Maps
Differs from the general monument symbol by one horizontal band, so a reader who knows the older symbol can read the newer one without a legend.
Contexts: Maps
The upright monument slab with a horizontal band drawn across it, distinguishing it from a plain memorial stone.