Genji cart	Overlapping flower-shaped Genji carts

Shionada pinwheel	Takayanagi pinwheel	Japanese pinwheel

Eight ladles water wheel	Water wheel with stream	Water wheel with stream in circle

The Genji cart, or oxcart, also called gosho-guruma (cart for the Imperial Palace), was often symbolized by depicting only the wheel of the cart. After the Fujiwara period, the wheel was depicted in decorative patterns and later used as family crests.