The mark consists of a Japanese character enclosed within a circle featuring a knot at the bottom. Five horizontally arranged Japanese characters appear to the right of the circle with the horizontally arranged, stacked wording "WASHOKU MATSUO since 1851" underneath.
WASHOKU MATSUO SINCE ONE EIGHT FIVE ONE; WASHOKU MATSUO SINCE ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED FIFTY ONE; WASHOKU MATSUO SINCE EIGHTEEN FIFTY ONE
Color is not claimed as a feature of the mark.
The non-Latin Japanese characters in the mark transliterate to "MATSU WASHOKU MATSUO."
"MATSU" and "WASHOKU" mean "pine" and "Japanese cuisine" in English, respectively. The term MATSUO has no meaning in English.
No claim is made to the exclusive right to use the non-Latin, Japanese characters that transliterate to WASHOKU meaning "Japanese cuisine", WASHOKU, and SINCE 1851 apart from the mark as shown.