Remembering the Abe clan which collapsed at Kuriyagawa no saku (Kuriyagawa no ki) and associating the school with the same historical event, the Morioka Municipal Kuriyagawa Junior High School uses the 'plum blossom' for the school's emblem.
厨川柵で潰えた安倍氏を偲び、同様の故事から盛岡市立厨川中学校の校章は「梅」を象る。