Order of the Paulownia Flowers
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| Order of the Paulownia Flowers 桐花章 |
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| Star of the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers | |
| Awarded by the Emperor of Japan | |
| Type | Order |
| Eligibility | Individuals with many years of outstanding accomplishments, particularly in public and political life. |
| Status | Currently constituted |
| Sovereign | His Imperial Majesty The Emperor |
| Grades (w/ post-nominals) | one class Grand Cordon |
| Established | 1888 |
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| Next (higher) | Order of the Chrysanthemum |
| Next (lower) | Order of the Rising Sun |
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| Ribbon bar of the order | |
The Order of the Paulownia Flowers (桐花章 Tōka shō) is an order presented by the Japanese Government. Established in 1888 during the Meiji Restoration as the highest award in the Order of the Rising Sun; however, since 2003 it has been an Order in its own right.[1] The only grade of the order is Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers (旭日桐花大綬章 Kyokujitsu tōka daijushō), which ranks higher than the Order of the Rising Sun but lower than the Order of the Chrysanthemum. Traditionally, the order has been conferred upon eminent statesmen, cabinet ministers, politicians and judges.
The badge for the Order is a gilt cross with white enameled rays, bearing a central emblem of a red enameled sun disc surrounded by red rays, and with three paulownia blossoms between each arm of the cross. It is suspended from three enameled paulownia leaves on a sash in red with white border stripes, and is worn on the right shoulder.
The star for the Order is the same as the badge, but without the paulownia leaves suspension. It is worn on the left chest.
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Complete listing of ordinary (non-royal) recipients of the Order [edit]
Ordinary recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers (1888-2003) [edit]
Information from the corresponding article in the Japanese Wikipedia
Awards to living recipients [edit]
- Itō Hirobumi (11 February 1889)
- Ōyama Iwao (5 August 1895)
- Saigō Tsugumichi (5 August 1895)
- Yamagata Aritomo (5 August 1895)
- Kuroda Kiyotaka (20 August 1895)
- Konoe Tadahiro (26 September 1895)
- Inoue Kaoru (7 October 1895)
- Tokudaiji Sanetsune (7 October 1895)
- Matsukata Masayoshi (31 October 1899)
- Hijikata Hisamoto (16 July 1903)
- Kawamura Sumiyoshi (26 December 1903)
- Ito Sukeyuki (1 April 1906)
- Oku Yasukata (1 April 1906)
- Kawamura Kageaki (1 April 1906)
- Kuroki Tamemoto (1 April 1906)
- Kodama Gentarō (1 April 1906)
- Komura Jutarō (1 April 1906)
- Sakuma Samata (1 April 1906)
- Sasaki Takayuki (1 April 1906)
- Tanaka Fujimaro (1 April 1906)
- Tanaka Mitsuaki (1 April 1906)
- Terauchi Masatake (1 April 1906)
- Nogi Maresuke (1 April 1906)
- Nozu Michitsura (1 April 1906)
- Hasegawa Yoshimichi (1 April 1906)
- Hayashi Tadasu (1 April 1906)
- Higashikuze Michiyoshi (1 April 1906)
- Fukuoka Takachika (1 April 1906)
- Saionji Kinmochi (14 September 1907)
- Hayashi Tomoyuki (5 November 1907)
- Teruhisa Komatsu (3 November 1908)
- Oogimachisanjō Michika (4 January 1909)
- Matsudaira Norikata (6 January 1910)
- Ōkuma Shigenobu (29 April 1910)
- Sone Arasuke (29 August 1910)
- Tani Tateki (9 February 1911)
- Ōshima Yoshimasa (17 June 1912)
- Kagawa Keizō (5 August 1914)
- Katō Takaaki (14 July 1916)
- Yoshikawa Akimasa (20 March 1917)
- Kabayama Sukenori (12 May 1917)
- Yamao Yōzō (12 December 1917)
- Motono Ichirō (16 September 1918)
- Hirata Tosuke (24 May 1919)
- Kataoka Shichirō (7 January 1920)
- Kiyoura Keigo (4 September 1920)
- Itō Miyoji (7 September 1920)
- Uchida Kosai (7 September 1920)
- Katō Tomosaburō (7 September 1920)
- Gotō Shinpei (7 September 1920)
- Chinda Sutemi (7 September 1920)
- Hara Takashi (7 September 1920)
- Makino Nobuaki (7 September 1920)
- Inoue Yoshika (1 November 1920)
- Uehara Yūsaku (1 November 1920)
- Utsunomiya Tarō (1 November 1920)
- Ōshima Ken'ichi (1 November 1920)
- Ōtani Kikuzō (1 November 1920)
- Shimamura Hayao (1 November 1920)
- Nakamura Yūjirō (1 November 1920)
- Toda Shidomo (1 October 1921)
- Hamao Arata (25 November 1921)
- Soga Sukenori (28 December 1923)
- Okano Keijirō (11 February 1924)
- Saitō Makoto (11 February 1924)
- Tokugawa Iesato (11 February 1924)
- Ijuin Hikoyoshi (26 April 1924)
- Takahashi Korekiyo (3 June 1927)
- Hiranuma Kiichirō (21 April 1928)
- Yamashita Gentarō (10 May 1928)
- Asano Nagakoto (10 November 1928)
- Kaneko Kentarō (10 November 1928)
- Shibusawa Eiichi (10 November 1928)
- Hayashi Gonsuke (10 November 1928)
- Wakatsuki Reijirō (10 November 1928)
- Ichiki Kitokuro (28 December 1928)
- Kuratomi Yūzaburō (28 December 1928)
- Suzuki Sōroku (16 June 1930)
- Takarabe Takeshi (11 April 1931)
- Hamaguchi Osachi (29 April 1931)
- Kijuro Shidehara (12 December 1931)
- Inukai Tsuyoshi (6 May 1932)
- Okada Keisuke (21 January 1933)
- Suzuki Kantaro (29 April 1934)
- Nara Takeji (29 April 1934)
- Takashi Hishikari (23 December 1935)
- Ugaki Kazushige (5 August 1936)
- Yamamoto Tatsuo (5 August 1936)
- Ishiguro Tadanori (24 December 1936)
- Mizuno Rentaro (17 April 1938)
- Yuasa Kurahei (7 June 1940)
- Sakatani Yoshio (28 April 1941)
- Kishi Nobusuke (29 April 1967)
- Tanaka Kōtarō (29 April 1970)
- Funada Naka (29 April 1973)
- Shigemune Yūzō (29 April 1973)
- Yokota Kisaburo (29 April 1977)
- Kōno Kenzō (3 November 1977)
- Yasui Ken (3 November 1981)
- Nadao Hirokichi (3 November 1982)
- Nakamura Umekichi (3 November 1983)
- Fukuda Hajime (3 November 1984)
- Fukunaga Kenji (29 April 1986)
- Sakata Michita (3 November 1986)
- Toshiwo Doko (3 November 1986)
- Matsushita Konosuke (29 April 1987)
- Tokunaga Masatoshi (3 November 1989)
- Sakarauchi Yoshio (3 November 1993)
- Yaguchi Koichi (3 November 1993)
- Uno Sōsuke (29 April 1994)
- Tamura Hajime (3 November 1994)
- Kenzaburo Hara (29 April 1996)
- Hara Bunbe (3 November 1996)
- Kusaba Ryōhachi (29 April 1998)
- Tsuchiya Yoshihiko (29 April 1999)
- Itō Sōichirō (29 April 2001)
Posthumous awards [edit]
- Yamada Akiyoshi (14 November 1892)
- Mōri Motonori (24 December 1896)
- Shimazu Tadayoshi (26 December 1897)
- Kawakami Soroku (11 May 1899)
- Ōki Takatō (11 September 1899)
- Sano Jōmin (7 December 1902)
- Soejima Taneomi (31 January 1905)
- Enomoto Takeaki (26 October 1908)
- Okazawa Tadashi (12 December 1908)
- Inoue Hikaru (27 December 1908)
- Nomura Yasushi (24 January 1909)
- Iwakura Tomosada (1 April 1910)
- Takasaki Masakaze (28 February 1912)
- Hitoshi Kanjiro (28 February 1912)
- Tokugawa Yoshinobu (22 November 1913)
- Aoki Shūzō (16 February 1914)
Ordinary recipients of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers (from 2003) [edit]
Information from the corresponding article in the Japanese Wikipedia
Awards to living recipients [edit]
- Yamaguchi Shigeru (29 April 2005)
- Murayama Tomiichi (29 April 2006)
- Hiraiwa Gaishi (3 November 2006)
- Shoichiro Toyoda (3 November 2007)
- Machida Akira (3 November 2007)
- Kurata Hiroyuki (29 April 2008)
- Walter Mondale (3 November 2008)
- Howard Baker (3 November 2008)
- Tamisuke Watanuki (29 April 2010)
- Niro Shimada (29 April 2010)
- Chikage Oogi (3 November 2010)
- Toshiki Kaifu (29 April 2011)
- Daniel Inouye (24 June 2011)
- Yōhei Kōno (3 November 2011)
Posthumous awards [edit]
- Yutaka Inoue (22 June 2008)
- Takeo Nishioka (5 November 2011) [2]
- Prince Imperial Ui (1877–1955)
- Wu, Prince of Korea (1912–1945)
- Akira Machida[2]
- Masaru Ibuka
Notes [edit]
- ^ Japan, Cabinet Office: Decoration Bureau
- ^ a b Japanese Wikipedia
References [edit]
- Peterson, James W., Barry C. Weaver and Michael A. Quigley (2001). Orders and Medals of Japan and Associated States. San Ramon, California: Orders and Medals Society of America. ISBN 1-890974-09-9.
External links [edit]
- Japan, Cabinet Office: Decorations and Medals
- Decoration Bureau: Order of the Paulownia Flowers
- Japan Mint: Production Process
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