At the end of the Edo period when the people in the village served as the Imperial guard, they received a national flag with the emblem in which the character ju was placed inside a lozenge; after receiving this flag, Totsukawa-mura changed their emblem of their flag to the character ju placed inside a lozenge from the previous one, which was the character ju placed inside a circle.
幕末に御所警備の際、日の丸に「菱十（菱の中に十字）」の旗を頂き、それ以前の「丸十（丸に十字）」から、以後菱十紋を旗印とした。