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Kōdai-ji Maki-e Sake Ewer with Chrysanthemums and Paulownia Crests in alternating fields, early 17th century, Azuchi–Momoyama period, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Before the Chrysanthemum Seal was used extensively, the Paulownia Seal originally was the private symbol of the Japanese Imperial Family, from as early as the sixteenth century.
Feudal Japan had a complex system of heraldry, just like medieval Europe did, complete with family crests and a variety of flags to distinguish lords, clans, or individual warriors on the battlefield.
The mon of the Toyotomi clan, now used as the emblem of the Japanese Government; originally an emblem of the imperial family—a stylized paulownia.. Mon (紋), also called monshō (紋章), mondokoro (紋所), and kamon (家紋), are Japanese emblems used to decorate and identify an individual, a family, or (more recently) an institution, municipality or business entity.
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The Imperial Seal of Japan or National Seal of Japan, also called the Chrysanthemum Seal (菊紋, kikumon), Chrysanthemum Flower Seal (菊花紋, 菊花紋章, kikukamon, kikukamonshō) or Imperial chrysanthemum emblem (菊の御紋, kikunogomon), is the mon used by the Emperor of Japan and members of the Imperial Family.
The design of the Tomoe crest handed down as the "three-headed right-handed" of the Yuki clan. It looks like the three-way tail length. 日本語: 三つ巴（みつどもえ）は日本の家紋「巴紋」の一種である。
The name of the crest is Maruni chigai takanoha (丸に違鷹羽) and it belongs to the families Kubo and Hidaka. There may be other families bearing similar crest. The hawk was a symbol of a samurai in old days. "feather of hawk" was given glory to as the decoration at the time of ceremony such as New Year's Days, and great people of a samurai ...
It is a design that stacks three equilateral triangles into pyramid shapes. Japanese clans Ogata clan, Hojo clan, etc. used it. In particular, Mr. Hojo used the crest of the same design, but he also uses three scales composed of a long isosceles triangle at the bottom, which is called "Hojo Rin".