Additional awards of the same Medal of Honor are represented by additional narrower silver bars, each engraved with the date of the award.
For the sixth award an ornamental gold bar (made in gilded silver) without engraving is given in exchange for the last five silver bars that were awarded...
japanese awards and decorations
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japanesemedal bars of additional awarding
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飾版褒章
About the collection
https://asiamedals.info/threads/orders-of-golden-kite-from-the-collection-of-metropolitan-museum-of-art.10721
All medals are unissued (i.e. without engraved dates and names).
Red ribbon.
Dimensions: 3 1/8 × 1 3/8 in. (7.9 × 3.5 cm)
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meiji era
ほうしょう
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