Badges of Japan Athletic Association/日本體育會章

Badges of similar design https://asiamedals.info/threads/jingu-service-foundation-badges.27056/

About Nihon Taiiku-kai /Japan Athletic Association/.

Source.

Another useful excerpt with correct year of establishment.

Source.

Regular Member Badge

1st type.

1st variation.

Height 41 mm.

Obverse

通常會員章 - Regular Member Badge

reverse

日本體育會 /Nihon Taiiku-kai/ Japan Athletic Association

Original case.

日本體育會 /Nihon Taiiku-kai/ Japan Athletic Association

通常會員章 - Regular Member's Badge

 

2nd variation.

Different stamp and case.

 

3rd variation.

Different stamp and case.

 

4th variation.

Different stamp.

Original case.

The easiest way to differentiate between variations will be by using suspensions globe stamp.

 

2nd type.

Reverse

日本體育會 - Japan Athletic Association

通常會員章 - Regular Member Badge


Original case.

日本體育會 - Japan Athletic Association

通常會員章 - Regular Member Badge

 

Special Member Badge.

Obverse

特別會員章 - Special Member Badge

reverse

日本體育會 - Japan Athletic Association


Original case.

日本體育會 - Japan Athletic Association

特別會員章 - Special Member Badge

Silver kanji variation of the case.

 

Supporting Member Badge.

Obverse and case

日本體育會 - Japan Athletic Association

義助員之章 - Supporting Member Badge

 

Documents.

Issued to 真井政郎 - Masaro Manai on April 28, 1900.

On this day he became 日本體育會通常賛助會員 - Regular Supporting Member of Japan Athletic Association.

Details.

 

Watanabe Tatsugoro with Special (or Regular) Member Badge.

Watanabe Tatsugoro (1844 - May 26, 1907) was born in Chosei-gun, Chiba. He devoted his life to education in tailoring. He was apprenticed to a tailor in Edo. In 1868, upon finishing his apprenticeship, he returned to his hometown and started teaching sewing to children in the region while practicing as a tailor. Later, starting with Chonan Primary School, he taught tailoring at Chiba Normal School for Women, Tokyo Women's Normal School, and others, and was subsequently appointed Ministry of Education official. From 1881 he started to establish private schools such as Wayo Saiho Denshujo (later Tokyo Kasei University), Kyoritsu Women's Vocational School (later Kyoritsu Women's Educational Institution), which pioneered vocational training for women in Japan. He also wrote textbooks on sewing techniques and training, and spread a new technique of sewing called the Watanabe Method.

He also wearing Construction of the Imperial Volunteer Fleet Donation Badge https://asiamedals.info/threads/construction-of-the-imperial-volunteer-fleet-donation-badges.24689/

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Cased regular member's badge with a manufacturer ink stamp.

Unfortunately full name of Tokyo-based shop is unreadable.

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