Kiku is already taken...An Animal for your Family Emblem..Kamon for Japanese

If you were to choose an image to represent your family and turn it into an emblem, what would you choose, plant, abstract symbol, creature?
 
Japan is said to count some 20.000 of these family crests and our friends at PingMag explore those graced with animals in 'Joyous Kamon: Japanese Animal Crests'.
 
According to Family Crest here is what KA-MON stands for: KA means "family with own genealogical trees" and MON means "crest" or "emblem".