Showa Enthronement Chokuninkan Attendant’s Badge/勅任官用 昭和大禮使徽章

Silver, enamel.
Size 36 x 48 mm.
Weight 25.21 g.

These badges were intendend for the high-ranking officials. Under Meiji constitutional law, the term "imperial appointee"/chokuninkan indicated a senior governmental official from the second class or higher, who had been invested by imperial command (edict/order).

Obverse

大禮使 - Enthronement [lit. most solemn of ceremonies] Attendant

Details.

Marked I.Sato (designer); 造幣局製 - Made by Mint; 999.5.

 

Original case.

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大禮使職員徽章 - Enthronement Staff Member Badge

造幣局製 - Made by Mint

 

Another cased specimen.

 

Interesting signed badge.

武宮書記官 - Secretary Takemiya

宮内省 - Ministry of the Imperial Household https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_the_Imperial_Household

 

Details.

Marks.

 

Size 36 x 48 mm.
Weight 26 g.

Marks.

Case lid is missing.

 

Another cased specimen.

 

Badge that was issued to Captain Shizuo Hirahara in 1928.

3rd class Golden Kite order awarded posthumously for the 1938 Battle of Lake Khasan to Colonel Shizuo Hirahara

Superb group of awards. Regarding Battle of Khasan see also https://asiamedals.info/threads/badges-and-watch-fobs-of-changkufeng-incident-battle-of-lake-khasan.15154/ 3rd class Golden Kite order posthumously awarded on Aiugust 7, 1938 to Major (posthumously promoted to Colonel) Shizuo Hirahara...

asiamedals.info

陸軍步大尉平原静夫 - Army Captain Shizuo Hirahara

大禮使事務ヲ嘱託ス - Entrusted with Affairs of the Enthronement Attendant

昭和三年九月十 - September 10, 1928

大禮使 - Enthronement [lit. most solemn of ceremonies] Attendant