OSAKA ZOSENSHO K.K.

The new moon and baby elephant represented a young, expanding shipowning activity; the source also explains that Zo-zen and the Japanese word for elephant sound alike. The funnel was noted on Fukazaki Maru at Lyttelton on 31 March 1972. A starboard Minami Maru slide confirms the elephant facing forward, and the Japanese chart places it on an orange moon. The flag device combines the character for “Big”, also Osaka’s first syllable, stylised as an engineering tool, within a Roman O.

Brown 1995 records this as an alternative funnel.