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The emblem, designed by then Professor Yutaka Takehara, presently Professor Emeritus, features kakitsubata (rabbit-eared iris), which grow gregariously over wide areas in this region from old days. Ise Monogatari, a tenth century novel, includes a famous poem referring to kakitsubata in Yatsuhashi, Mikawa (the old name of this region). The area provides an ideal environment for students to love nature, to learn and to search.

The loop around the flower symbolizes the unity and harmony of nature-loving students, faculty and staff of the university. The flower pattern can be used as the emblem by itself. The English name of the university in the loop shows unity between the sign and the import.