Pillars of the State on Cavaliers

Rare photo of Manchukuo prison service officer (chief warden) with 7th class order of the Pillar of the States.
See also https://asiamedals.info/threads/medal-group-of-manchukuo-prison-officer.24141/

 

Emperor Puyi receives explanation from school master Tetsujiro Yamada (3rd from the right) at the military review during the Manchrian Army School graduation ceremony on Hsingking, Manchukuo.
May 10, 1944.

 

Rare photo of japanese diplomat Renzo Sawada with the breast star of the Pillars of the State.

Medal bar, 3rd class Sacred Treasure and Legion of Honour.

Close-up.

Dated October 1939, Tokyo.
Signed to Count Lovatelli.

 

Commander of 3rd Guard Regiment with the 3rd class Pillars of the State.

Medal bar.

3rd class Pillars of the State.

4th class Auspicious Clouds.

 

Guards Lieutenant General with Pillars of the State breast star and 4th class Auspicious Clouds.

Medal bar.

Breast star.

 

Another photo of the same lieutenant general.

 

Japanese Lieutenant General with Pillars of the State breast star and 3rd class Auspicious Clouds order.

Close-up.

See also https://asiamedals.info/threads/may...two-kites-on-one-man-chest.11712/#post-350580

 

General Major with 3rd class Pillars of the State and 4th class Auspicious Clouds.

Note that central medallion of Auspicious Clouds is missing.

 

Admiral Yoshida Zengo with Pillars of the State breast star.

 

4th class Pillars inside the medal bar of colonel Masanobu Tsuji https://asiamedals.info/threads/colonel-masanobu-tsuji.15268/

 

4th class Pillars of the State order inside medal bar of unknown general major.

 

Lieutenant-General Kōichi Ōno.

 

Lieutenant-General Kōtoku Satō/佐藤幸徳 陸軍中将

Satō, Kōtoku (佐藤幸徳/さとう こうとく) * 5th of March 1893 - † 26th of February 1959 Promotions 1932-12-XX Lieutenant-Colonel 1937-08-02 Colonel 1939-08-01 Major-General 1942-12-01 Lieutenant-General Service 1932-12-XX – 1934-08-02 Attached to 11th Infantry Regiment 1934-08-02...

asiamedals.info

 

Rare photo of Lieutenant General Takayanagi Yasutaro (he was the president of the Manchurian Military Dog Association).

 

Lieutenant Colonel Kogoshi with 3rd class Pillars of the State.

Note the early type of medal hanger.

 

Lieutenant General Kyoji Tominaga with 3rd class Pillars.

Note that he also is wearing rare Genghis Khan Military Merit Badge https://asiamedals.info/threads/men...ment-genghis-khan-military-merit-badge.24588/, Imperial Order of the Dragon of Annam (in his medal bar) and breast star of the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant (Siam/Thailand).

 

Motoji Shinkuma /泉二新熊, January 27, 1876 - Octover 25, 1947/ with very rare combination of awards: Republic of China order of the Golden Grain, Imperial Russian order of the St.Anna 3rd class for Non-Christians and breast star of the Pillars of the State order.

 

General Korechika Anami/阿南惟幾 陸軍大将

Korechika Anami /阿南 惟幾, Anami Korechika, 21 February 1887 – 15 August 1945/ was born in Taketa city in Ōita Prefecture, where his father was a senior bureaucrat in the Home Ministry and grew up in Tokyo and in Tokushima Prefecture. He attended the 18th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy...

asiamedals.info

 

Lieutenant-General Saburo Endo/遠藤三郎 陸軍中将

Saburō Endō /January 2, 1893; October 11, 1984/. Promotions 1937-08-02 Colonel 1939-08-01 Major-General 1942-12-01 Lieutenant-General Service 1932-08-08 – 1934-08-01 Chief of Manoeuvres Section, Kwantung Army 1934-08-01 – 1936-08-01 Instructor at the War College...

asiamedals.info